Predictors of oral squamous cell carcinoma outcomes

A study may have uncovered prognostic factors in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.

In a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis published in Oral Diseases, investigators used the MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science and Scopus databases to identify 255 studies involving 63,114 patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.

The investigators found that several factors such as lymph node involvement, invasion depth greater than five millimeters and extracapsular spread were predictive of the risk of cancer recurrence and mortality in this patient population.

The findings highlighted the critical need to develop more effective strategies for the early diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma.

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