back ground and objective:oral cancer is primarily a disease of epithelial origin. the tongue is the most common site of oral cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of tongue cancer and signs, symptoms, clinical features, and site of lesions in addition to factors affected this cancer.  materials methods and:twenty eight medical records of patients who admitted for tongue...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical parameters and treatment outcome of medullary thyroid carcinoma in Hong Kong Chinese patients. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Regional oncology unit, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma who were identified among 1656 patients with thyroid malignancies seen in a single institute in Hong Kong from January 1960 to June 2003. MA...

Isolated brain metastases prior to locoregional recurrence from hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HCCA) following curative resection are an extremely rare event. Very few reports regarding brain metastasis prior to locoregional recurrence following curative resection have been published due to the fact that to differentiate brain metastases from HCCA recurrence is challenging, particular in the early s...

BACKGROUND The clinical utility of intraparotid lymph node metastasis in primary parotid cancer is unknown, and this study was undertaken to address this gap in knowledge. METHODS A medical chart review was performed on 86 patients who underwent parotidectomy with neck dissection (39 cN+ and 47 cN0). The disease-specific mortality and locoregional recurrence (LRR) were correlated with intrapa...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the failure patterns and the prognostic factors following postoperative radiotherapy for salivary gland carcinoma. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Fifty patients who had non-disseminated salivary gland carcinoma and who received primary treatment from 1984 through 1993. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Demographic data...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of functional capacity (FC) and how it affects quality of life (QoL) in breast cancer survivors. METHOD A total of 400 breast cancer survivors were studied - 118 without metastasis, 160 with locoregional metastasis and 122 with distant metastasis. The European Organization for Research and Treatment for Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire--Core 30 (EORTC Q...

Abstract Aim The predominant pattern of failure for oral carcinoma is locoregional failure. With improvement in control, incidence distant metastasis has increased. Reported 8 to 10%. an aim define and predictive factors posttreatment cavity cancer, the present analysis was done. Materials Methods This a retrospective chart review 531 patients who underwent surgery from August 2013 December 201...

PURPOSE We evaluated outcomes of patients treated with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for locoregionally advanced or recurrent nonanaplastic thyroid cancer and analyzed the effect of EBRT volume on locoregional control. METHODS This study included 23 patients with locoregionally advanced or recurrent nonanaplastic thyroid cancer who were treated with EBRT. Two different EBRT target volumes...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognosis of ipsilateral supraclavicular lymph node metastasis (ISLM) without evidence of distant metastases at diagnosis in Chinese women with breast cancer and to elucidate the clinical value of adjuvant radiotherapy. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of clinical data for 39 patients with ISLM from breast cancer without...

Results Recurrence happened in 45 patients (40.2%) after operation. Median time to recurrence was 17.4 months. Locoregional relapse was the major recurrence type, detected in 38 patients (33.9%). Distant metastasis alone occurred in only 3 patients (2.7%). All locoregional relapse were in lymph nodes except for 1 (2.6%) at the anastomosis. Altogether, lymph node metastasis accounted for 82.2% o...