2014/11/04

Factors of tongue cancer affecting long-term postoperative quality of life analysis

Recently, Xinjiang Medical Maxillofacial Surgical Oncology Liu Yuan, and other co-published papers, aimed at long-term postoperative factors tongue investigate the influence of the quality of life. Research indicates that clinical factors that affect the quality of tongue cancer after long-term survival of patients with clinical stage mainly, histological grade, postoperative radiotherapy and local recurrence, including local recurrence is an independent risk factor. This article was published in 2014, Volume 23 (7) of the "Chinese Journal of Aesthetic Medicine."

         Collected in March 2009 - February 2011 in our hospital 83 cases of tongue cancer patients, using finished fourth edition of the University of Washington Quality of Life Questionnaire score, and collect the age, sex and tongue cancer pathology data for statistical comparisons.

         Smoking, T stage, N stage, tumor grade, radiotherapy, depth of invasion> 8mm, locoregional recurrence after surgery can affect the quality of life Tongue (P <0 .05="" span=""> or P <0 .01="" span="">