title: Outcome of patients with head and neck cancers: 10-year experience of a otorhinolaryngology--head and neck unit in a tertiary hospital of a developing country.
abstract: Being a rapidly developing country, a study was needed to see how we faired in treating head and neck cancer patients compared with international standards. Although being a retrospective study, this research shows that there is still a lot to be done in our developing nation in educating the general public about head and neck cancers as most of them presented in the later stages to us. There also needs to be a proper review about the treatment modality offered to patient as our survival results are far behind in certain categories of cancers compared with the developed nations.
authors.affiliation: Otorhinolaryngology Department , Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. shashinder_Dr@hotmail.com
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shashinder
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Choo
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Gopala
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged