title: Routine endoscopy for esophageal cancer is suggestive for patients with oral, oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study attempted to reveal the incidence and risk of synchronous and metachronous esophageal cancer in subjects with oral, oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer based on a population-wide database in Taiwan.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrieved data for this cross-sectional study from the Taiwanese Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000. The study group included 2,965 subjects who had received their first-time diagnosis of oral/oropharyngeal/hypopharyngeal cancer in 2002∼2009. We assigned the date of their first diagnosis of oral/oropharyngeal/hypopharyngeal cancer as the index date. We also randomly retrieved 29,650 comparison subjects matched with the study subjects in terms of gender and age group. We assigned their first medical utilization that occurred in the index year as the index date for the comparison group. We further performed a conditional logistic regression to investigate the association between esophageal cancer and oral cancer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed that prevalences of esophageal cancer within 3 months before and after the index date were respectively 2.19% and 0.04% for the study and comparison groups. A conditional logistic regression revealed that the odds ratio (OR) of esophageal cancer for subjects with oral/oropharyngeal/hypopharyngeal cancer was 55.33 (95% confidence interval (CI): 29.86∼102.52) compared to comparison subjects. Furthermore, compared to comparison subjects, ORs for esophageal cancer were respectively 18.41 (95% CI: 8.50-39.85), 40.49 (95% CI: 15.11∼108.64), and 240.96 (95% CI: 125.49-462.69) for study subjects with a malignancy of the oral cavity, oropharynx, and hypopharynx.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We concluded that there were relatively high chances for synchronous and metachronous esophageal cancers being detected through panendoscopy in patients with oral, oropharyngeal, and hypopharyngeal cancers. The routine use of panendoscopy in such patients should be encouraged with a higher priority.
authors: Department of Otolaryngology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors: Shih-Han
authors: SH
authors: Hung
authors: Ming-Chieh
authors: MC
authors: Tsai
authors: Tsai-Ching
authors: TC
authors: Liu
authors: Herng-Ching
authors: HC
authors: Lin
authors: Shiu-Dong
authors: SD
authors: Chung
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007012:Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D009959:Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology
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