Asiye Demirel, Ayşe Neslihan Balkaya, Tuğba Onur, Ümran Karaca, Anıl Onur
The Effect of Health Literacy on Preoperative Anxiety Levels in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery
Patient preference and adherence
high prevalence incidence head neck tumors make brazil country thirdhighest number cases malignant neoplasms main risk factors smoking alcohol consumption however cases related human papillomavirus hpv tripled number demonstrating changing disease profile studies reported prevalence hpv laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma lscc vary 8 83 role hpv important causative factor lscc remains unclear retrospective study included 82 patients lscc diagnosed 2014 2019 two oncology hospitals lus brazil sociodemographic clinical data histopathologic characteristics tumors collected directly medical records genetic material extracted paraffinembedded samples using nested polymerase chain reaction pcr automated sequencing hpv detection genotyping results social clinicopathologic variables compared using chisquared test multivariate analysis sociodemographic analysesdemonstrated patients men 878 brownskinned 756 resident state capital 537 generally poor education status 537 elementary school education completedincomplete 512 selfemployed occupations farming fishing smoking alcohol consumption habits observed approximately half patients respect clinical characteristics 39 patients exhibited t1t2 staging 512 distant metastasis 305 lymph node invasion hpv dna detected half samples 50 high oncogenic type 16 prevalent significant relationship observed economic educational occupational hpv lscc presented data although multivariate analysis demonstrated hpv dna likely present t3t4 tumors p 0002