Clinical Outcome Following Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder Treatment: A 100 Patient Cohort Study

Table 2

Risk profile and clinical outcome.

	Clinical; resolution	Recurrent; disease	Further; disease	Malignant; transformation	OSCC; development
Number of cases	62	17	14	5	2
Sex
Male/female	39/23	13/4	10/4	3/2	1/1
Age (Yrs)
Mean (range)	57 (33–71)	58 (40–77)	59 (39–76)	63 (58–76)	(47–48)
Lesion size (mean mm^2)	Minor (251)	Major (394)	Major (343)	Intermediate/major (361)	Major (478)
Pathology grading (binary system)
Low/high	35/27	4/13	6/8	2/3	0/2
Tobacco use^1	Intermediate	Heavy	Heavy	None	None
Alcohol use^2	Light	Heavy	Heavy	None	Light

1Heavy smoker > 20 cigarettes/day, intermediate smoker 10–20 cigarettes/day, and light smoker < 10 cigarettes/day.
²Heavy drinker > 28 units/wk, intermediate drinker 15–28 units/wk, and light drinker < 14 units/wk.