Impact of delay in diagnosis on survival to head and neck carcinomas: A systematic review with meta-analysis

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-106

  Seoane, J ^a   Takkouche, B ^a   Varela Centelles, P ^a   Tomas I ^a   Seoane Romero, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; META ANALYSIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84860174846     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2012.02464.x     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. Jemal A., Siegel R., Ward E. et al. (2009) Cancer statistics, 2009. CA Cancer J. Clin. 59, 225-249
2. Warnakulasuriya S. (2009) Global epidemiology of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. Oral Oncol. 45, 309-316
3. Goy J., Hall S.F., Feldman-Stewart D. et al. (2009) Diagnostic delay and disease stage in head and neck cance: a systematic review. Laryngoscope 119, 889-898
4. Ragin C.C.R., Modugno F. & Gollin S.M. (2007) The epidemiology and risk factors of head and neck cancer: a focus on human papillomavirus. J. Dent. Res. 86, 104-114
5. Scott S.E., Grunfeld E.A. & McGurk M. (2005) The idiosyncratic relationship between diagnostic delay and stage of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Oral Oncol. 41, 396-403
6. Gomez I., Seoane J., Varela-Centelles P. et al. (2009) Is diagnostic delay related to advanced stage oral cancer? A meta-analysis Eur. J. Oral Sci. 117, 541-546
7. Teppo H. & Alho O.P. (2009) Comorbidity and diagnostic delay in cancer of the larynx, tongue and pharynx. Oral Oncol. 45, 692-695
8. Yu T., Wood R.E. & Tenenbaum H.C. (2008) Delays in diagnosis of head and neck. J. Can. Dent. Assoc. 74, 61
9. Kantola S., Jokinen K., Hyrykangas K. et al. (2001) Detection of tongue cancer in primary care. Br. J. Gen. Pract. 51, 106-111
10. Kerdpon D. & Sriplung H. (2001) Factors related to advanced stage oral squamous cell carcinoma in Southern Thailand. Oral Oncol. 37, 216-221
11. Allison P., Locker D. & Feine J.S. (1998) The role of diagnostic delays in the prognosis of oral cancer: a review of the literature. Oral Oncol. 34, 161-170
12. Teppo H., Koivunen P., Hyrynkangas K. et al. (2003) Diagnostic delays in laryngeal carcinoma: professional delay is a strong independent predictor of survival. Head Neck 25, 389-394
13. Koivunen P., Rantala N., Hyrynkangas K. et al. (2001) The impact of patient and professional diagnostic delays on survival in pharyngeal cancer. Cancer 92, 2885-2891
14. Ho T., Zahurak M. & Koch W.M. (2004) Prognostic significance of presentation-to-diagnosis interval in patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma. Arch. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 130, 45-51
15. Brouha X.D.R., Tromp D.M., Hordijk G.J. et al. (2005) Oral and pharyngeal cancer: analysis of patient delay at different tumor stages. Head Neck 27, 939-945
16. Alho O.P., Teppo H., Mäntyselkä P. et al. (2006) Head and neck cancer in primary care: presenting symptoms and the effect of delayed diagnosis of cancer cases. CMAJ 174, 779-784
17. Hansen O., Larsen S., Basthol L. et al. (2005) Duration of symptoms: impact on outcome of radiotherapy in glottic cancer patients. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 61, 789-794
18. Wells G.A., Shea B., O'Connell D. et al. (2011) The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for Assessing the Quality of Nonrandomized Studies in Meta-Analyses. Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. (accessed June 6, 2011)
19. Stroup D.F., Berlin J.A., Morton S.C. et al. (2000) Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 283, 2008-2012
20. Takkouche B., Cadarso-Suárez C. & Spiegelman D. (1999) Evaluation of old and new tests of heterogeneity in epidemiologic meta-analysis. Am. J. Epidemiol. 150, 206-215
21. Sutton A.J., Abrams K.R., Jones D.R. et al. (2000) Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 115
22. Egger M., Smith G.D., Schneider M. et al. (1997) Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test. Br. Med. J. 315, 629-634
23. Costa-Bouzas J., Takkouche B., Cadarso-Suárez C. et al. (2001) HEPIMA. Software for the identification of heterogeneity in meta-analysis. Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 64, 101-107
24. Cianfriglia F., Orefici M. & Manieri A. (1990) The prognostic correlation between a delay in the diagnosis and the survival of patients with malignant tumors of the oral cavity. Minerva Stomatol. 39, 897-900
25. Wildt J., Bundgaard T. & Bentzen S.M. (1995) Delay in the diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Clin. Otolaryngol. Allied Sci. 20, 21-25
26. Pitchers M. & Martin C. (2006) Delay in referral of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma to secondary care correlates with a more advanced stage at presentation, and is associated with poorer survival. Br. J. Cancer 94, 955-958
27. Kowalski L.P. & Carvalho A.L. (2001) Influence of time delay and clinical upstaging in the prognosis of head and neck cancer. Oral Oncol. 37, 94-98
28. McGurk M., Chan C., Jones J. et al. (2005) Delay in diagnosis and its effect on outcome in head and neck cancer. Br. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 43, 281-284
29. Teppo H., Hyrynkangas K., Koivunen P. et al. (2005) Impact of patient and professional diagnostic delays on the risk of recurrence in laryngeal carcinoma. Clin. Otolaryngol. 30, 157-163
30. Aarstad H.J., Heimdal J.H., Aarstad A.K. et al. (2002) Personality traits in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients in relation to the disease state, disease extent and prognosis. Acta Otolaryngol. 122, 892-899
31. Teppo H. & Alho O.P. (2008) Relative importance of diagnostic delays in different head and neck cancers. Clin. Otolaryngol. 33, 325-330
32. Sandoval M., Font R., Manos M. et al. (2009) The role of vegetable and fruit consumption and other habits on survival following the diagnosis of oral cancer: a prospective study in Spain. Int. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 38, 31-39
33. Seoane J., Pita-Fernandez S., Gomez I. et al. (2010) Proliferative activity and diagnostic delay in oral cancer. Head Neck 20, 1-8
34. Symonds R.P. (2002) Cancer biology may be more important than diagnostic delay. BMJ 5, 325-774