Open AccessImpact of smoking on pathological features in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Karine A. Al Feghali,
Ahmed I Ghanem,
Charlotte Burmeister,
Steven S. Chang,
Tamer Ghanem,
Christian Keller,
Farzan Siddiqui
Publication year - 2019
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/jcrt.jcrt_641_16
Subject(s) - medicine , pathological , lymphovascular invasion , perineural invasion , multivariate analysis , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , gastroenterology , adverse effect , lymph node , disease , oncology , t stage , basal cell , metastasis , paleontology , biology
We sought to determine whether smokers with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) have tumors with more adverse pathological features than in nonsmokers and whether or not these are predictive of outcomes.