General complications with head neck cancer patients

Abstract

General complications of 227 patients with head and neck cancer squamous cell carcinoma were analysed, and investigated in relation to the first choice of cancer treatment and prognosis of general complication after cancer treatment.
The results were summarized as follows:
(1) Cancer patients with general complications that included previous illnesses were 50.6%, and cancer patients with general complications of present illnesses were 23%.
(2) 8 cases of cancer patients could not have operations for general complications.
Control of present illness was necessary in 27 out of 54 cancer patients with present illness.
(3) About 10% of cases developed present aggravated illness after the first choice of cancer treatment, and 5 cases (5/227, 2.2%) of these patients died of general complicatins. However, aggravation of these 5 patients was considered to have no direct relation to cancer treatment.