Survival of Oral Cancer Patients in Different Ethnicities. (9th August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ghani, Wan Maria Nabillah; Ramanathan, Anand; Prime, Stephen Stewart; Yang, Yi-Hsin; Razak, Ishak Abdul; Abdul Rahman, Zainal Ariff; Abraham, Mannil Thomas; Mustafa, Wan Mahadzir Wan; Tay, Keng Kiong; Kallarakkal, Thomas George; Doss, Jennifer Geraldine; Cheong, Sok Ching; Bustam, Anita Zarina; Zain, Rosnah Binti
• Is Part Of: Cancer investigation. Volume 37:Number 7(2019)
• Page Start: 275
• Page End: 287
• Publication Date: 2019-08-09
• Subjects: Head and neck cancer -- prognostic studies -- ethnicity -- mouth neoplasm; Cancer -- Periodicals; Oncology -- Periodicals; Medical Oncology -- Periodicals; Neoplasms -- Periodicals; 616.994
• DOI: 10.1080/07357907.2019.1635614
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0735-7907

Abstract

Abstract: Previous studies found that ethnicity influences oral cancer patients' survival; however, most studies were limited to certain ethnic groups particularly from the West, thus of limited relevance to Asians where the disease is most prevalent. We investigated the relationship between ethnicity and patient survival in multi-racial Malaysia. 5-year survival rate was 40.9%. No statistically significant difference was observed in survival between Malays, Chinese, Indians and Indigenous peoples (45.7%, 44.0%, 41.3%, 27.7% respectively). Increased tumor size, lymph node involvement and advanced tumor were predictive of poor survival. We conclude that ethnicity has no effect on survival or its prognostic indicators.