title: Oral cancer in Puerto Rico.
abstract: All cancer cases diagnosed in Puerto Rico are analyzed and registered in the Central Cancer Registry. The incidence of oral cancer in Puerto Rico is fourth-highest in the world. (In 1972 oral cancer accounted 72% of all cancers in males in Puerto Rico.) A review of the data revealed important contrasts with reported statistics from the continental United States (e.g., 75.6% of the cases in Puerto Rico were initially treated by radiation, compared with 15.3% of the cases in Western New York States.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D005887:Gingival Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010157:Palatal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D011647:Puerto Rico; D012737:Sex Factors; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States