Clinicopathological Presentation of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Iraqi population

Bayad Jaza Mahmood; Ibrahim Saeed Gataa; Umed Muhammad Mustafa

doi:10.18502/jcr.v8i3.8839

Bayad Jaza Mahmood Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, University of Sulaimani, Iraq.
Ibrahim Saeed Gataa Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Iraq.
Umed Muhammad Mustafa Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, University of Sulaimani, Iraq.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/jcr.v8i3.8839

Keywords: Squamous cell carcinoma, Oral cancer, Clinical presentation, Histopathology, Tumor grading.

Abstract

Background and Aim: Oral cancer is a major public health issue worldwide; it remains a highly lethal and disfiguring disease, it is primarily a disease of epithelial origin, it has various clinicopathological pictures. is to demonstrate various clinical and pathological presentations of oral squamous cell carcinoma in Iraqi population.

Materials and Methods: A total of 80 cases of histologically diagnosed squamous cell carcinoma collected from the main centers of Sulaymaniyah teaching hospital/Hiwa cancer center Hospital/Sulaymaniyah/Iraq were analyzed according to age, sex, site, clinical, and pathological presentation of oral squamous cell carcinoma at the time of presentation, and histological grading.

Results: Patients in their sixth decade of life were the most commonly affected with a male-to-female ratio of 1.4:1. The tongue was the most frequently affected site, followed by the floor of the mouth. The most common clinical presentation is ulceration and swelling. More than 40% of the cases were well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.

Conclusion: Oral cancer is increasingly seen as a major health problem, in line with the general trend in the region, the need for inter-professional health care delivery approaches for reducing oral cancer mortality and improving patients’ quality of life.