Oral Cancer in Children Under 15 Years of Age. A Clinicopathological and Virological Study

Juhani Kärjä Departments of Otolaryngology Oral Pathology and Pathology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Stina Syrjänen Departments of Otolaryngology Oral Pathology and Pathology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Taina Usenius Departments of Otolaryngology Oral Pathology and Pathology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Martine Vornanen Departments of Otolaryngology Oral Pathology and Pathology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Yrjö Collan Departments of Otolaryngology Oral Pathology and Pathology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Abstract

11 malignant tumours of the oral region in children under 15 years of age were diagnosed in Finland during the 20-year period from 1961 to 1980; the age adjusted annual incidence rate being 0.31 per 1 000 000 children. 5 cases were intraoral cancer and 5 cases malignant tumours of the major salivary glands. The formalin-fixed tumours were studied using the in situ DNA hybridization technique for Adenovirus, group II, Epstain-Barr and human papillomavirus, type 16. For the first time, evidence was provided for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus in a malignant salivary gland tumour, implicating a possible etiological role for this virus in salivary gland neoplasms.

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