Indian clinical practice consensus guidelines for the management of oral cavity cancer

Profiling of swallowing function in head and neck cancer patients prior to radiation therapy-Findings from a tertiary hospital in South India

“…Though in India, cancer of the lip and oral cavity are the most common subsites of cancer in men and the fourth most common cancer in women ( Sung et al, 2021 ), in the present study, only 16.7 % of the patients had cancer of this subsite while the majority had oropharyngeal cancer. This could be because of the inclusion criteria that excluded surgical patients, and most oral cavity cancers are treated with primary surgery due to the accessibility for resection ( Arboleda et al, 2023 Sep 3 , Chaturvedi et al, 2020 ).…”

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity, Oropharynx, and Larynx: A Scoping Review of Treatment Guidelines Worldwide

“…A total of 25 CPGs were published between 1996 and 2023, 10 of them with algorithms guiding the recommendations [13,15,16,18,21,27,31,35,37,38]. CPGs with constant updates were observed in societies such as the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), and the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria (ACR-AC).…”

“…CPGs with constant updates were observed in societies such as the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), and the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria (ACR-AC). A total of 15 CPGs reported the TNM editions used for recommendations, 1 from the fifth edition (1997) [18], 6 from the seventh edition (2009) [22,23,25,28,30,32], and 8 from the eighth edition (2017) [13,15,16,21,27,31,35,38]. Three European CPGs used the Infectious Diseases Society of America-US Public Health Service Grading System for ranking strength of recommendations and quality of evidence score [13,27,31].…”

“…Three European CPGs used the Infectious Diseases Society of America-US Public Health Service Grading System for ranking strength of recommendations and quality of evidence score [13,27,31]. Regarding geographic areas, ten CPGs were from Europe [13,18,19,25,26,[28][29][30][31][32]34], eight were from Asia [16,[21][22][23]27,33,35,38], six CPGs from North America [15,17,24,36,37,39], and one from Africa [20]. Figure 2 represents the CPGs distributed by countries where the recommendations were performed, including the USA with the highest number of CPGs (4), followed by Spain, the United Kingdom, and India, with 2 for each.…”

“…Figure 2 represents the CPGs distributed by countries where the recommendations were performed, including the USA with the highest number of CPGs (4), followed by Spain, the United Kingdom, and India, with 2 for each. There were ten CPGs focused on HNC as a whole [13,15,16,22,27,29,[31][32][33][34]37], seven were specific to the larynx [19,[24][25][26]36,38,39], five for the oral cavity [18,20,21,23,28], and three for oropharynx [17,30,35]. The societies or professional organizations that produced CPGs for HNC treatment are shown per country and anatomical site in Table 1.…”