Consequences of Non-Adherence to Treatment for Advanced Oral Epidermoid Carcinoma
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
The objective of this work is to report a case of a female patient with advanced oral epidermoid carcinoma. An 89-year-old female patient resident of the municipality of Araruna, Brazil, who had been a smoker since the age of five years, was sent to the diagnostic team at the State University of Paraíba, Campus VIII. The clinical exam revealed a large ulcerous, crusted tumor on the entire upper lip and ulcerous, erythematous, leukoplakic lesions in the orophranyx. The diagnosis was well-differentiated epidermoid carcinoma T4N0M0. The patient was sent for cancer treatment, which involved excision of the labial tumor and radiotherapy for the intraoral lesions. However, the patient refused to undergo radiotherapy. After nine months, the tumor had metastasized to the submandibular lymph node. The patient’s continued refusal to undergo treatment resulted in the growth of the tumor, ulceration of the submental lymph node and death 14 months after the initial diagnosis. Adherence to treatment is an important factor to the prognosis of cancer. Non-compliance on the part of the patient reported herein had a negative effect on her survival. Keywords: Carcinoma, Neoplasm metastasis, Mouth.
Authors and Affiliations
Martiniano SG, Henriques DAS, Silva JM, Martins KEL, Agripino GG, Marinho SA
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP375844
- DOI -
- Views 85
- Downloads 0
Idiopathic Upper Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis (UEDVT): Case Report
Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis (UEDVT) accounts for the minority of all thrombotic events. However, UEDVT has become more common recently; this is due to increasing use of central venous catheters for chemotherap...
The Cadaveric Study on the Prevalence of Meckel’s Diverticulum in Southern Nigeria
Meckel’s diverticulum is the most common congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract but occurs infrequently in the different population of the world. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence, mor...
Cocaine-induced Hepatotoxicity: A Case Report
Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It has a small number of legitimate medical applications. Historically, it was useful as a topical anesthetic in eye and nasal surgery, al...
Intraoperative Scrape Cytology: A Case of Ovarian Fibrothecoma
Fibrothecomas are sex-cord stromal tumors that have histologic appearances intermediate between fibromas and thecomas. The exact incidence of fibrothecoma is unknown, although they have been described as rare ovarian neo...
Ganglioneuroma of Lumbar Region
Ganglioneuromas (GNs) arising from neural crest sympathogonia are rare benign neurogenic tumors. The most commonly affected sites are the posterior mediastinum, the retroperitoneum and the adrenal gland. Here , we are pr...