Shashinder S, Choo P K, Gopala K G
Otorhinolaryngology Department , Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2008 Jan;17(1):93-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00814.x.
Being a rapidly developing country, a study was needed to see how we faired in treating head and neck cancer patients compared with international standards. Although being a retrospective study, this research shows that there is still a lot to be done in our developing nation in educating the general public about head and neck cancers as most of them presented in the later stages to us. There also needs to be a proper review about the treatment modality offered to patient as our survival results are far behind in certain categories of cancers compared with the developed nations.
作为一个快速发展的国家，需要进行一项研究，以了解我们在治疗头颈癌患者方面与国际标准相比的情况。尽管这是一项回顾性研究，但这项研究表明，在我们这个发展中国家，在向公众宣传头颈癌方面仍有很多工作要做，因为大多数患者就诊时已处于晚期。与发达国家相比，我们在某些癌症类别中的生存结果远远落后，因此还需要对为患者提供的治疗方式进行适当审查。
