Histopathology clinical characteristic of oropharyngeal carcinoma

ABSTRACT

Study in 195 oropharyngeal carcinoma patients, results showed that this cancer mainly occurred in the group of 40-70 years old (70%), male was more often than female (2.8 times), duration of onset 12 months 10.7%. Symptoms are sore throat 59.7%, dysphagia 73.3%, changes of voice 43%, bleeding phlegm 15.8%, difficult swallow 7.8%, and lock-jaw 20.7%. Primary tumors on the right/left were 49.7% and 50.3%. 87.6% of lymph nodes were on the same side of tumors, 12.3% on the opposite side. Most patients have been diagnosed in late stages. 74.8% tumors were squamous cell carcinoma, 25.2% were undifferentiated carcinoma.