1. Opium Usage as an Etiologic Factor of Oral Cavity Cancer
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Sareh Hoseinpor, Maziar Motiee-Langroudi, Babak Saedi, Mohammad Hosein Kalantar Motamedi, Ata Garajei, and Ebrahim Razmpa
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Alcohol Drinking ,Opium ,Oral hygiene ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Carcinoma ,Humans ,Risk factor ,Aged ,business.industry ,Smoking ,Case-control study ,Cancer ,General Medicine ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,Opioid-Related Disorders ,Oral Hygiene ,medicine.disease ,Confidence interval ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Case-Control Studies ,Anesthesia ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Female ,Mouth Neoplasms ,Surgery ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Purposes The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of opium in causing oral cancer. Patients and methods Eighty patients and 80 selected matched controls who were referred to the ear-nose-throat department of an academic hospital were included in this study between October 2008 and September 2010. In addition to demographic data, information regarding alcohol, tobacco, and opium use was documented in the subjects. Finally, the effect of each risk factor was assessed. Results There was no significant difference in patient demographics between the 2 groups. Smoking (P = 0.042) and poor oral hygiene (P = 0.016) significantly correlated with cancer. Finally, opium addiction showed a significant relationship with oral cavity cancer with an odds ratio of 4 (95% confidence interval, 1.2-13.6). Conclusion Opium use is among the possible risk factors for oral cancer.
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- 2014