Cancer of the tongue a study based on 653 patients

Cancer in Assam.Observations based on a study of 2,493 biopsy specimens of malignant tumors

“…He has pointed out that such records usually fail to afford average samples of the whole community and in many ways, seen or unseen, the material is of a selected kind. Khanolkar21 emphasized that "At the same time it would be equally wrong to reject such data com- No. 4 CANCER IN ASSAM Baruah 429 pletely, for they help to indicate the relative importance of certain diseases in certain populations in spite of the limitations imposed upon them by differences in sex and age groups, and the eagerness and opportunity of the people to seek relief in medical institutions."…”

Invasive pattern grading score designed as an independent prognostic indicator in oral squamous cell carcinoma

“…Broders’ system was first established on the basis of the proportion of highly differentiated cells in 1920 20,21 . Although Broders’ system was simple and widely used, it was a poor predictor for survival or metastasis 6,22 . In 1973, Jakobsson et al.…”

Carcinoma of the tongue in early adult life.

“…This has led to a change in sex incidence so that the male to female ratio is now approximately 2: 1 (Cade and Lee, 1957;Pointon, 1964;Sharp and Helsper, 1964;James and Bonta, 1965). It is interesting that in this series there has been a predominance of female patients with reversal of this ratio and of the 8 patients seen in the last 15 years all except 1 have been female.…”

“…It is known, however, that the degree of differentiation may vary at different sites of the same tumour (Cade and Lee, 1957).…”