Epidemiologic studies suggest that coffee intake is associated with reduced risk of oral/pharyngeal cancer. The authors examined associations of caffeinated coffee, decaffeinated coffee, and tea intake with fatal oral/pharyngeal cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II, a prospective US cohort study begun in 1982 by the American Cancer Society. Among 968,432 men and women who were cancer free a...

BACKGROUND The association between tea intake and risk of oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal carcinoma is still unclear. The aim of this meta-analysis was to quantify the effect of tea consumption on the incidence of oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal cancer to provide a better understanding on this issue. MATERIAL/METHODS A literature search was conducted before January 2014 in MEDLINE and EMBASE ...

BACKGROUND Postsurgical oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients may experience pharyngeal clearance problems after completion of postoperative radiotherapy. METHODS Swallowing was examined in six patients using videofluoroscopy for up to 1 year after surgery. Biomechanical analysis was used to mark movement of the tongue base and posterior pharyngeal wall during swallowing. RESULTS The major...

Abstract Introduction Pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma is a known risk factor for later of the esophagus. We investigated whether esophageal high enough to justify routine gastroscopy surveillance in northern European population. If among patients with pharyngeal corresponds Barretts esophagus developing adenocarcinoma, it could surveillance. Method Histopathology data from and biopsies obtai...

BACKGROUND Swallowing disorders following treatment for oral and pharyngeal cancer are mainly considered a surgical sequel. The recent finding that radiotherapy-induced decline in intraoral sensory abilities established an incentive to elucidate any association between the degree of sensory decline and the degree of swallowing dysfunction. METHODS Oral and pharyngeal swallowing was cineradiog...

BACKGROUND Data on the association between vitamin D and upper digestive tract neoplasms are limited. METHODS In two case-control studies in Italy, we examined the relation between dietary vitamin D intake and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (SCCE; 304 cases) and oral/pharyngeal cancer (804 cases). Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated by multiple logist...

BACKGROUND Based on the hypothesis that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure can cause DNA damage that may activate dormant viruses such as human papilloma virus, a recent ecological study, which estimated state-level UVR exposure, reported positive correlations between annual UVR exposure and the incidence of oral, pharyngeal, and cervical cancer in 16 U.S. states using the International Agenc...

Oral and pharyngeal cancers are the sixth most common cancers internationally. In the United States, there are about 30,000 new cases of oral and pharyngeal cancers diagnosed each year. Furthermore, survival rates for oral and pharyngeal cancers have not significantly improved over the last three decades. This review examines the scientific literature surrounding the epidemiology of oral and ph...

To investigate the relationship between serum micronutrients and the subsequent risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer, a nested case-control study was conducted within a cohort of 25,802 adults in Washington County, MD, whose blood samples were collected in 1974 and stored at -70 degrees C for subsequent assays. The serum levels of nutrients in 28 individuals who developed oral and pharyngeal canc...