ArticleHead & neck oncology2012
Delay in pathological tissue processing time vs. mortality in oral cancer: short communication.
Article in Head & neck oncology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It carries an expression of concern. Cited by 5 papers.
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- National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Article
- Impact of Clinical Information on the Turnaround Time in Surgical Histopathology: A Retrospective Study.Cureus · 2018Article
- Reducing turnaround time of surgical pathology reports in pathology and laboratory medicine departments.BMJ quality improvement reports · 2015Article
- Laboratory Turnaround Time of Surgical Biopsies at a Histopathology Service in Nigeria.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationArticle
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Abstract
Several factors have been identified to affect morbidity and mortality in oral cancer patients. The time taken to process a resected cancer specimen in a patient presenting with primary or recurrent disease can be of interest as delay can affect earlier interventions post-surgery. We looked at this variable in a group of 168 consecutive oral cancer patients and assessed its relationship to mortality from the disease at 3 and 5 years. It is expected that delay in pathological processing time of surgical specimens acquired from patients with recurrent disease may increase or contribute to the increased rate of mortality. Further high evidence-based studies are required to confirm this.
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