Age at Diagnosis by Gender
In the last four decades,199,484 men and 73,868 women have been diagnosed with oral cavity, larynx, oropharynx and hypopharynx cancers (Table 1, 4). When assessing age at diagnosis, it was found that women were diagnosed proportionally higher in the young (0-39 years) age range (4.1% women vs. 3.0% men; Table 4). However, men are diagnosed with HNC at a rate about three times higher than women.