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.