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Cancer of the tongue in young persons
Author(s) -
Goyanes Alfredo Die,
Frazell Edgar L.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930030408
Subject(s) - medicine , tongue , cancer , lesion , tongue neoplasm , metastasis , distant metastasis , carcinoma , survival rate , surgery , general surgery , pathology
Abstract Carcinoma of the tongue in young persons is uncommon, A search of records of the Memorial Hospital revealed six such cases, and 13 others were encountered in the literature. The preponderance of females in this small series is not significant. The high survival rate (50%) is directly attributed to the infrequency of cervical metastasis and the favorable location (anterior two‐thirds) of the primary lesion.