ArticleJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2024
Inflammatory Tongue Conditions and Risk of Oral Tongue Cancer Among the US Elderly Individuals.
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- Demographic and Geographic Heterogeneity in Tongue Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1999-2020.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Article
- Effects of smoking cessation on taste function in heavy smokers undergoing hemiglossectomy for tongue squamous cell carcinoma.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- DCNN models with post-hoc interpretability for the automated detection of glossitis and OSCC on the tongue.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Advances in Photothermal Therapy for Oral Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Evaluating the link between periodontitis and oral squamous cell carcinoma through Wnt/β-catenin pathway: a critical review.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Review
- Global burden of thyroid cancer from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeThe incidence of oral tongue cancers has increased since the 1980s among US men and women for unknown reasons. We investigated associations of inflammatory tongue conditions with risk of cancers of the oral tongue, other oral cavity, and oropharynx among the US elderly individuals (age 65 years or older).
methodsWe conducted a case-control study (2,534 oral tongue cancers, 6,832 other oral cavity cancers, 9,373 oropharyngeal cancers, and 200,000 controls) within the SEER-Medicare data set (1992-2013). Medicare records were used to identify patients with clinically diagnosed inflammatory tongue conditions (glossitis, benign migratory glossitis, median rhomboid glossitis, atrophic glossitis, glossodynia, other specified conditions [eg, atrophy and hypertrophy], and other unspecified conditions) and oral precancer (leukoplakia/erythroplakia). Only conditions preceding cancer/control selection by >12 months were included.
resultsThe prevalence of inflammatory tongue conditions was significantly higher in patients with tongue cancer than controls (6.0%
conclusionInflammatory tongue conditions were associated with strongly increased risks of oral tongue cancers and preceded cancer diagnosis by several years, underscoring the need for increased clinical surveillance among patients with such apparently benign diagnoses.
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