Carcinoma de células escamosas em pacientes jovens: relato de dois casos

Abstract

Squamous Cell Carcinomas (SCC) in young adults, under 45 years years old, has been progressively increasing in recent decades and has been attracting studies and research to elucidate the advent of this phenomenon. Environmental pollutants, nutritional habits, microorganisms and oncogenes, among others, are some of the factors associated with the eventual etiopathogenesis of these malignant diseases that often cause significant morbidities to the individuals affected. Smoking and alcohol consumption, although still being fundamentally important factors for this disease, have suggested less relevance in the younger age groups. Health education campaigns and higher awareness of general population seem to have subsidiary the increasing rate of earlier diagnoses of oral cancers in younger individuals, resulting in better patient prognoses. The present study, illustrate a first clinical case of a young adult patient who is an alcoholic and smoker as well as a report in which the young patient did not informed any clearly harmful habit.