Head and Neck Cancer in Haiti: A Case Series from Hopital de L’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti

Table 1

Patient presentation and demographics.

Variable	Cancer (n=8)	Benign (n=10)	All (n=34)	P-Value
Age (mean)	63.4	44.3	47.9	0.02
Male	5 (62.5%)	5 (50%)	15 (44.1%)	0.48
Literate	3 (37.5%)	8 (80%)	24 (70.6%)	0.09
Months to Presentation (mean)	10.9	13.7	11.43	0.77
Hx of HIV/AIDS	1 (12.5%)	0	2 (5.9%)	0.44
Symptoms:
Fever	2 (25%)	1 (10%)	5 (14.7%)	0.56
Weight Loss	4 (50%)	5 (50%)	17 (50%)	0.68
Dysphagia	2 (25%)	5 (50%)	14 (41.2%)	0.28
Lesion Location:
oral cavity	3 (37.5%)	3 (30%)	8 (23.5%)	0.56
oropharynx	3 (37.5%)	3 (30%)	9 (26.5%)	0.56
mandible	0	1 (10%)	2 (5.9%)	0.56
neck	1 (12.5%)	2 (20%)	10 (29.4%)	0.59
larynx	1 (12.5%)	1 (10%)	5 (14.7%)	0.71

All includes patients with cancer diagnoses, those with benign diagnoses, and those lost to follow who did not receive a biopsy.
p-value denotes comparisons between the cancer and benign groups.