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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3464</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP144</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Assessment of Patient__ampersandsignrsquo;s Quality of Life with Oral Cancer Treatment&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>J</surname><given-names>Arunkumar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Koul</surname><given-names>Dushyant</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>10</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>nt</volume><issue>es</issue><fpage>7</fpage><lpage>12</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Oral cancer is the 2nd most common cancer of the body. Oral cancer can be treated surgically, with chemotherapy or with irradiation. The goal of cancer therapy may be described as the achievement of a disease-free physical state of health. Objectives: To evaluate the oral functions in patients after the treatment for oral cancer. Methods: Study includes twenty-three patients of both sexes who had undergone surgery alone or surgery with radiotherapy. In that twenty patients had squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity and three patients had verrucous carcinoma. Quality of life was assessed using a questionnaire. Impairment of speech, chewing swallowing, degree of pain and appearance was assessed in all the patients. Result: The mean age was 58.26 years. The most affected site in the oral cavity was mandible (52%). There was Grade-I 73.9% of patients had no pain, Grade-II had 21.7% mild pain and Grade-III had 4.35% moderate pain. 60% had minor changes after the treatment. The majority had improvement in swallowing after treatment (69.5%). II 52.1% can chew with mild difficulty. 56.5% had mild difficulty speech. Conclusion: Patients receiving surgery and radiotherapy have more significant impairment in chewing and swallowing..&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Oral cancer</kwd><kwd> Quality of life</kwd><kwd> Questionnaire study</kwd><kwd> Chemotherapy</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
