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versão On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumo
PEREZ DELGADO, Nuria; URGELLES RODRIGUEZ, Eduardo e GONZALEZ TORRES, Lisandra. Clinical-epidemiological behavior of oral cancer in the province of Guantanamo, 2007-2018. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2019, vol.98, n.4, pp. 448-457. Epub 20-Set-2019. ISSN 1028-9933.
Introduction:
oral cancer is a health problem that affects a significant group of people.
Objective:
to identify the clinical-epidemiological behavior of oral cancer in the province of Guantanamo in the 2007-2018 period.
Method:
a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out. The universe was the 252 patients with histopathological diagnosis of the disease. The following variables were studied: triennial involvement, age, sex, origin, oral topography, clinical extension and morphological type.
Results:
the highest percentage of the patients belonged to the male sex (69.4%), were over 60 years old (69.8%), came from the Guantánamo municipality (42.9%). The lesions were located mainly in the tongue (37.3%) and floor of the mouth (19.0%) and extended to the buccal complex (52.8%). Squamous cell carcinoma was the most common histopathological type (94%).
Conclusions:
in Guantanamo, oral cancer is an unsolved health problem that mainly affects the geriatric population and the male sex, which requires attention in advanced stages of the disease.
Palavras-chave : oral cancer; squamous cell carcinoma; stomatology.