Mortality in tongue cancer patients treated by curative surgery: a retrospective cohort study from CGRD.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our study aimed to compare the outcomes of surgical treatment of tongue cancer patients in three different age groups.

Methods

From 2004 to 2013, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 1,712 patients who were treated in the four institutions constituting the Chang Gung Memorial Hospitals (CGMH). We divided and studied the patients in three age groups: Group 1, younger (<65 years); Group 2, young old (65 to <75); and Group 3, older old patients (≥75 years).

Results

Multivariate analyses determined the unfavorable, independent prognostic factors of overall survival to be male sex, older age, advanced stage, advanced T, N classifications, and surgery plus chemotherapy. No significant differences were found in adjusted hazard ratios (HR) of death in e

SUBMITTER: Tsai MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5162395 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature