Epidemiologic study of oral cancers in Khouzestan province in a 10-year period, 1992-2002

The incidence of oral cancers is different worldwide.

To evaluate the rate of oral cancers in Khouzestan Province.

The data were collected from the pathologic reports of pathology laboratories all around the province, during the time period of 1992-2002.

Among the total received specimens, 305 cases of oral cancers were detected. One hundred ninety-three cases (63.2%) were male and 112 cases (36.8%) were female. Male to female ratio was 1.7 and mean age was 55.04±16.60 years. Squamous cell carcinoma was the most common malignancy (75% of total), and then standed the nasopharyngeal carcinoma (10.8%) and lymphoma (7.5%). The most common sites were lower lip (29.2%), tongue (19%) and nasopharynx (15.7%).

Regardless of some minor differences, most of our findings were similar to other previous studies.