Preeti Singh1, Vishal Pathania2, Mohanlal Khatri3
factors impact the outcomes of treatment in terms of survival and quality of life.
RESULTS
After
followup of 0.5 to 2 years data were compared among various groups, various disease related factors like volume of
disease, staging of neck node, extracapsular spread in final HPE report and various patient related factors like age and sex of
patient, performance status of patient, and presence of comorbidities were compared with final outcome in terms of recurrence
or disease free survival with less complications.
CONCLUSION
1. Most prominent tumour related prognostic factors were low volume nodal disease in the neck and absence of
e xtracapsular spread. Patients with TNM stage I (T0N1M0) were associated with lower recurrence and less complication
postoperatively as compared to advanced stage disease (T0N2M0 and T0N3M0).
2. In our study p atient related variables associated with superior patient outcomes in terms of locoregional recurrence or
disease free survival were good performance status, females, young age, absence of weight loss, non smoker without
any comorbidity.
