Table 2 Factors associated with recurrence in oral cancer patients who underwent surgery during June 2009–June 2013 at Malabar Cancer Centre, Thalassery, Kerala, India
Variables | Factors | Recurrence status | p value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Present | Absent | |||||
N | % | N | % | ||||
Use of Tobacco | Tobacco smoking | 90 | 17 | 18.9 | 73 | 81.1 | 0.82 |
Tobacco chewing | 145 | 28 | 19.3 | 117 | 80.7 | 0.55 | |
Use of alcohol | 82 | 13 | 15.9 | 69 | 84.1 | 0.49 | |
Site of primary | Bucco alveolar | 99 | 15 | 15.2 | 84 | 84.8 | 0.29 |
Tongue/floor of mouth | 121 | 25 | 20.7 | 96 | 79.3 | ||
Neck dissection | Ipsilateral neck dissection | 206 | 38 | 18.4 | 168 | 81.6 | 0.69 |
Selective neck dissection | 93 | 14 | 15.1 | 79 | 84.9 | 0.25 | |
Comprehensive neck dissection | 113 | 24 | 21.2 | 89 | 78.8 | ||
Contralateral neck dissection | 24 | 3 | 12.5 | 21 | 87.5 | 0.45 | |
Histopathology | Positive margin* | 5 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 80 | 0.72 |
Ipsilateral node positive | 61 | 19 | 31.1 | 42 | 68.9 | 0.002 | |
Contralateral node positive | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | 5 | 83.3 | 0.92 | |
Extra capsular spread | 17 | 6 | 35.3 | 11 | 64.7 | 0.5 | |
Perineural invasion | 26 | 7 | 26.9 | 19 | 73.1 | 0.22 | |
Advanced stage | 118 | 28 | 23.7 | 90 | 76.3 | 0.02 | |