Numbers of each type of head and neck cancer patients according to their gender.

Numbers of each type of head and neck cancer patients according to their gender.

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Background: Squamous cells lining the tissues of the head and neck region, such as the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, oral cavity, lip, salivary glands, and hypopharynx, give growth to a group of malignancies together recognized as squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, which is the seventh utmost communal cancer diagnosis around the world...

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... was identifying the numbers of males and females of head and neck cancer patients for each type of this cancer, and it was shown that the cancer cases in female more than in male especially in lymphoma and thyroid gland cancer that occur in 38 and 14 females, respectively compare with 23 and 6 males, respectively. However, the pharyngeal cancer found in males more than in females with numbers 9 and 3, respectively ( Figure 2). To determine the ages of each type of head and neck cancer patients, it was divided the cancer patients according to their ages to specify the risk ages for occurring each cancer type. ...