TY - JOUR
T1 - Prognostic factors and survival of laryngeal cancer patients from Turin, Italy
T2 - A population-based study
AU - Boffetta, Paolo
AU - Merletti, Franco
AU - Faggiano, Fabrizio
AU - Migliaretti, Giuseppe
AU - Ferro, Gilles
AU - Zanetti, Roberto
AU - Terracini, Benedetto
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the National Research Council, Rome, Italy (contracts 85.02391.44 and 86.00595.44); the Italian Association for Research on Cancer; and the Italian Ministry of Education. Dr. Giuseppe Migliaretti was supported by a fellowship from the Novara branch of the Italian League for Cancer Research.
PY - 1997/6/15
Y1 - 1997/6/15
N2 - Little information is available on the role of risk factors for cancer of the larynx in survival. This study analyzed survival through the end of 1994 for 355 cases of laryngeal cancer diagnosed among residents of Turin, Italy, during 1979-1982. Relative survival at 5 years was 75% in women and 67% in men. The role of clinical and etiologic factors was analyzed in detail among 222 male cases. The role of nodal involvement as a strong predictor of poor survival was confirmed. Patients of low socioeconomic status experienced poorer survival than other patients, as did heavy smokers. Alcohol drinking and diet did not seem to strongly influence survival. Survival in this series of laryngeal cancer cases closely parallels that observed in other case series from Europe. While the results regarding socioeconomic status, tobacco smoking, and alcohol drinking parallel those of the few previous studies available, this investigation did not confirm a rote for diet in the survival of laryngeal cancer patients, a finding that was recently seen in another study from northern Italy.
AB - Little information is available on the role of risk factors for cancer of the larynx in survival. This study analyzed survival through the end of 1994 for 355 cases of laryngeal cancer diagnosed among residents of Turin, Italy, during 1979-1982. Relative survival at 5 years was 75% in women and 67% in men. The role of clinical and etiologic factors was analyzed in detail among 222 male cases. The role of nodal involvement as a strong predictor of poor survival was confirmed. Patients of low socioeconomic status experienced poorer survival than other patients, as did heavy smokers. Alcohol drinking and diet did not seem to strongly influence survival. Survival in this series of laryngeal cancer cases closely parallels that observed in other case series from Europe. While the results regarding socioeconomic status, tobacco smoking, and alcohol drinking parallel those of the few previous studies available, this investigation did not confirm a rote for diet in the survival of laryngeal cancer patients, a finding that was recently seen in another study from northern Italy.
KW - Alcohol drinking
KW - Diet
KW - Laryngeal neoplasms
KW - Smoking
KW - Survival
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U2 - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009072
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009072
M3 - Article
C2 - 9199539
AN - SCOPUS:0030970714
SN - 0002-9262
VL - 145
SP - 1100
EP - 1105
JO - American Journal of Epidemiology
JF - American Journal of Epidemiology
IS - 12
ER -