Abstract
Introduction: Carcinoma of the mobile tongue is one of the most frequent malignant tumors of the oral cavity. Generally, patients are diagnosed after 40 years of age. The early detection of these lesions prevents their development towards advanced stages of the disease, which obscure their prognosis, through rapid and adequate care, timely biopsy, and early treatment, preventing patients from being mutilated, suffering or dying from it cause. The objective of the present study is to report a group of patients with this neoplasia, its treatment and survival.
Methods: In the present descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study, patients diagnosed with mobile tongue carcinoma, treated at the National Institute of Oncology of Havana, between 2007 and 2011, were evaluated. Age, smoking, alcoholism, staging are reported, type of treatment and survival.
Results: There were 68 cases, a predominance of the age group between the years 55-69 was observed, with 41.18% of the patients, being the predominant sex the masculine, with 79.41% of the total. In the TNM classification, it was observed that tumors predominated as T3 with 35.29%, followed by T2 with 30.88%, the lymph node invasion was more represented by the N0 category with 58.82% of the cases. 64.71% of the patients were alive at 60 months.
Conclusion: The mobile tongue carcinoma was more frequent in the ages between 55-69 years and in the male sex, more than 50% of the patients practiced toxic habits, there was a predominance of advanced stages, the surgery with postoperative adjuvant was the therapeutic more common.