Treatment attitudes of oral cancer patients at Tagawa Municipal Hospital for recent 3 years

Abstract

About newly 1400 patients per yaer visit at Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tagawa Municipal Hospital. Twenty percent of newly patients were came from primary clinic. Since April 1999, the definitive therapy of oral cancer has treated at the department. At the first visit, patients are explained the extent of disease, the diagnosis of cancer, another departments of oral cancer, the importance of second opinion about the disease, the treatment of cancer, physical problem after treatment based on UWQOL (University of Washington, Quality of Life Questionnaire) and prognosis. This paper investigate the treatment attitudes of newly oral cancer 27 patients at the department for 3 years.