TY - GEN T1 - Survival of Patients with Oral Cavity Cancer in Germany AU - Listl, Stefan AU - Jansen, Lina AU - Stenzinger, Albrecht AU - Freier, Kolja AU - Emrich, Katharina AU - Holleczek, Bernd AU - Katalinic, Alexander AU - Gondos, Adam AU - Brenner, Hermann AB - The purpose of the present study was to describe the survival of patients diagnosed with oral cavity cancer in Germany. The analyses relied on data from eleven population-based cancer registries in Germany covering a population of 33 million inhabitants. Patients with a diagnosis of oral cavity cancer (ICD-10: C00-06) between 1997 and 2006 are included. Period analysis for 2002–2006 was applied to estimate five-year age-standardized relative survival, taking into account patients' sex as well as grade and tumor stage. Overall five-year relative survival for oral cavity cancer patients was 54.6%. According to tumor localization, five-year survival was 86.5% for lip cancer, 48.1% for tongue cancer and 51.7% for other regions of the oral cavity. Differences in survival were identified with respect to age, sex, tumor grade and stage. The present study is the first to provide a comprehensive overview on survival of oral cavity cancer patients in Germany. KW - Humans KW - Female KW - Male KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Germany/epidemiology KW - Middle Aged KW - Young Adult KW - Databases Factual KW - Mouth Neoplasms/epidemiology KW - Survival Analysis KW - 610 Medizin PY - 2013 LA - eng PB - Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung VL - 8 IS - 1 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0053415 ER -