Norwegian Radium Hospital
Five-year survival rates for oral cancers have not improved
Published in Hospital Business Week, January 12th, 2004
"Given the increase in the age distribution of the population, an increase in cancer incidence rates are to be expected. Oral cancer is a disfiguring disease that continues to increase in incidence, particularly in the young, and to an extent that cannot be fully explained by increased exposure to known risk factors," investigators in Norway report.
"Despite extensive research on treatment modalities for oral cancer, the 5-year survival rate of this disease has not been improved over the last 4-5 decades. These facts strongly favor...
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