Oral Cancer (A+ Guaranteed)

14.01/100,000 correct answers How common is oral cancer in Kentucky? African Americans correct answers What ethnicity has the worst 5-year survival rate? 5th through 6th decades of life correct answers What is the most common age for oral cancer? white males correct answers Who has the highest incidence of oral cancer? 60-65% correct answers What is the 5 year survival rate of oral cancer? squamous cell carcinoma correct answers What are >90% of oral cancers? salivary gland carcinoma, sarcomas, mucosal melanomas, lymphoma correct answers What are <10% of oral cancers? the mutagens in tobacco, alcohol, and viruses have prolonged exposure to the superficial layers of the oral mucosa, creating an opportunity for genetic mutation (mucosa is traumatized so they mutate) correct answers Why is squamous cell carcinoma the most common oral cancer? False --up to 17% of oral cancer patients have distant mets at presentation--meaning that oral cancer is still curable if detected early correct answers True or false: more than 30% of oral cancer patients have distant mets at presentation early detection--significant differences in 5-year survival rates correct answers What significantly improves prognosis of oral cancer? (1) chief complaint (2) HPI: location, quality, severity, onset, duration, frequency, aggravating or relieving factors, associated symptoms--ask how long its been there (3) meds (4) allergy (5) past med/surgical history correct answers What should you get in your history (5)? (1) asymptomatic (may not be painful) (2) pain (this is when they seek help) (3) bleeding (4) ulceration (5) white/red lesion (6) mass in mouth (7) otalgia (8) dysphagia (trouble swallowing)/odynophagia (pain on swallowing) (9) neck mass