Tongue Cancer in a Young Male

Squamous cell carcinoma is a common cancer of the oral cavity. The median age of presentation is 60 years and it rarely occurs in patient aged less than 30 years. We present a case of a 29-year-old male who had ulceroproliferative growth at the left lateral aspect of the tongue. He had a risk factor...

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Autores principales: Bagale, Gyanendra, Pradhan, Sandip R, Basnet, Archana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34650876
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17702
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description Squamous cell carcinoma is a common cancer of the oral cavity. The median age of presentation is 60 years and it rarely occurs in patient aged less than 30 years. We present a case of a 29-year-old male who had ulceroproliferative growth at the left lateral aspect of the tongue. He had a risk factor of tobacco limed betel nut chewing from the age of 14. After detailed investigations, squamous cell carcinoma was confirmed with a staging of cT4a N0 M0. He underwent surgery along with radiotherapy afterward.
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spelling pubmed-84883152021-10-13 Tongue Cancer in a Young Male Bagale, Gyanendra Pradhan, Sandip R Basnet, Archana Cureus Medical Education Squamous cell carcinoma is a common cancer of the oral cavity. The median age of presentation is 60 years and it rarely occurs in patient aged less than 30 years. We present a case of a 29-year-old male who had ulceroproliferative growth at the left lateral aspect of the tongue. He had a risk factor of tobacco limed betel nut chewing from the age of 14. After detailed investigations, squamous cell carcinoma was confirmed with a staging of cT4a N0 M0. He underwent surgery along with radiotherapy afterward. Cureus 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8488315/ /pubmed/34650876 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17702 Text en Copyright © 2021, Bagale et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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