title: Upper aero-digestive tract cancer--descriptive analysis of eight years study in north east India.
abstract: Medical reports of eight years study of upper aero-digestive tract cancer were retrospectively evaluated. The patients were classified according to their age, sex, primary tumour localisation and tumoural stage. There were 53.06% males and 46.94% females, with male to female ratio of 1.13:1. The peak incidence for all primary tumour localisations were observed in the sixth decade of life. Most common primary tumour localisation site was in the oesophagus (30.41%) followed by oropharyngeal cancer (25.91%) and laryngopharyngeal cancer (19.21%). Of all the patients, only 13.79% cases presented at the early stage of the disease and the rest 86.21% presented in the late stage of the disease. The proportion of patients presenting with metastatic nodes was 85.31%.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Down Town Hospital Ltd, Guwahati 781006.
authors.forename: Bhaben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Choudhury
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution