Mortality from oral and pharyngeal cancer in Brazil: trends and regional patterns, 1979-2002 La mortalidad por cáncer bucal y faríngeo en el Brasil: tendencias epidemiológicas regionales, 1979-2002 Objective: To investigate the trends and regional patterns in mortality from oral cancer and pharyngeal... 

Encyclopedia of Cancer by Diane M. Calabrese Definition Oropharyngeal cancer is an uncontrolled growth of cells that begins in the oropharynx, the area at the back of the mouth. Description The oropharynx is the passageway at the back of the mouth. It connects the mouth to the esophagus (tube through... 

Smoking, they say, is the leading cause of lung cancer world-wide. A recent study shows that, in the United States alone, 157,200 people have died of smoking-related lung cancer. Some of which are caused directly by smoking, and some due to second hand smoke. However the effect of smoking does not only... 

DG Pfister, LB Harrison, EW Strong, JP Shah, RW Spiro, DH Kraus, JG Armstrong, MJ Zelefsky, DE Fass and MH Weiss Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021. PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of a strategy using induction chemotherapy followed... 

Can dental professionals make a difference? In spite of advancements in surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, overall five-year relative survival rates for patients with oral and pharyngeal cancers have not improved significantly for more than two decades, remaining at less than 60 percent. This survival... 

Arthur Mashberg DDS1 and Alan M. Samit DDS2 1 Chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Veterans Administration Medical Center in East Orange, New Jersey; Professor of Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, New Jersey; and Clinical... 

CARLO LA VECCHIA*,**, EVA NEGRI*, BARBARA D’AVANZO*, PETER BOYLE and SILVIA FRANCESCHI Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’ Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milano, Italy. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. The International Agency... 

Rajesh P Dikshit and Shiela Kanhere Reprint requests to: Dr Rajesh Dikshit, Department of Pathology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal (MP), 462001, India. Background Tobacco habits in India are unique and vary in different regions. Few studies, and none from central India, have reported on type of tobacco... 

Background Substantial molecular evidence suggests a role for human papillomavirus (HPV) in the pathogenesis of oropharyngeal squamous-cell carcinoma, but epidemiologic data have been inconsistent. Methods We performed a hospital-based, case–control study of 100 patients with newly diagnosed oropharyngeal... 

Mouth and Oropharynx Cancer Overview About 34,000 people are diagnosed with cancers of the mouth and oropharynx (the part of the throat just behind the mouth) in the United States each year. Fortunately, cases of these cancers and deaths have been decreasing over the past 30 years. These cancers are...