Open AccessOral squamous cell carcinoma in a South African sample: Race/ethnicity, age, gender, and degree of histopathological differentiation
Author(s) -
R A G Khammissa,
Shabnum Meer,
J Lemmer
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.138100
Subject(s) - medicine , basal cell , population , ethnic group , white (mutation) , race (biology) , negroid , demography , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , epidemiology , biology , biochemistry , botany , physics , environmental health , sociology , anthropology , optics , gene
The purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate differences between black and white persons with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) with regard to age, gender, oral site affected, and histopathological degree of differentiation; and to compare these clinicopathological parameters between persons younger and older than 40 years in a South African population sample from the greater Johannesburg area.