Title: Comparison of Anneroth’s and Broder’s grading systems in oral squamous cell carcinoma- A 5 year study

Authors: Prof. Dr Shikha Ghanghoria, Dr Sunil Jaiswal, Dr Priyanka Kiyawat, Prof. Dr Arvind Ghanghoria

 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i2.124

Abstract

Background: Oral cavity is one of the leading site of cancer. The incidence of oral cancer in India is 30-50% of whole body tumors .Histological grading is an important diagnostic tool to predict the clinical and biological behaviour of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Analysis of the prognostic factors is important for predicting prognosis and reducing mortality in these patients. 1927 Broder’s  grading system was formed for grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma, this system was applied for many years, then in 1978 Anneroth’s multifactorial grading system  was established by Dr Anneroth,  for evaluation of prognosis and prediction of survival period for  oral squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Objective: To Compare Anneroth and Broder’s grading systems in oral squamous cell carcinoma and to evaluate the Anneroth’s grading as a standard as compare to Broder grading system.

Material and Method: Retrospective study was done on  total 600 Biopsy and radical specimen cases which were reported as SCC in last  5yrs,were collected from record room of histopathology section in MGM Medical college & M.Y. Hospital  Indore(M.P.) are included in study . All cases were reclassified according to Anneroth’s system. Broder’s system is based on only differentiation of cells while six parameters of Anneroth’s system gives a detail about degree of keratinisation, nuclear pleomorphism, number of mitosis/hpf, pattern of invasion, stage of invasion and lympho plasmacytic infiltration.

Result: In this study ,according to Border’s grading system out of 600 cases 52% cases were grade I,40% cases were grade II and 8% cases were grade III while according to Anneroth’s grading system 37% were grade I,55% were gradeII,7.0% were grade III and 1.0% were grade IV. Anneroth’s grading system is more informative and gives better result regarding prognosis, action taking time and prediction of survival period than Broder’s System.

Conclusion: Anneroth’s system of grading can be taken as standard system for evaluation of prognosis and prediction of survival period in patient of OSCC.

Keywords: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Malignancy Grading System, Metastasis.

References

  1. Sciubba, -J-J. Oral cancer, The importance of early diagnosis and Treatment. Am-J-Clin-Dermato. 2001; 2(4): 239-51.
  2. Chiba, -I; Muthumala, -M; Yamazaki, -Y. Characteristics of P53 gene of oral squamous cell carcinomas associated with betel quid chewing in Sri Lanka. Int-J-Cancer 1998 Sep 11; 77(6): 839-42
  3. Anneroth G, Batsakis J, Luna M. Review of the literature and a recommended system of malignancy grading in oral squamous cell carcinomas. Scand J Dent Res 1987; 95:229-49.
  4. Bryne M, Koppang HS, Lilleng R, et al. Malignancy grading of the deep invasive margins of oral squamous cell carcinomas has high prognostic value. J Pathol 1992; 166:375-81
  5. Bryne M, Koppang HS, Lilleng R, et al. New malignancy grading is a better prognostic indicator than Broders' grading in oral squamous cell carcinomas. J Oral Pathol Med 1989; 18:432-7.
  6. Mahmuda Akther et al A  study on histological grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma and its co rellation ship with regional metastasis 2005.
  7. Doshi Neena et al Histological grading of oral cancer :A comparison of different system and their relation to lymph node metastasis National journal of community medicine.2011 Volume 2 Issue 1.
  8. Fee WE,Schoepel SL,Rubenstein R et al.squamous cell carcinoma of soft palate; arch otolaryngology 1979;105,717-718.
  9. Anneroth G, Batsakis J, Luna M. Review of literature and recommended system ofmalignancy grading in oral squamous      Scand J Dent Res 1984; 92:229-49.
  10. Chang, -k-W; Kao, -S-Y; Tzeng,-R-J; Liu,-C-J. Multiple molecular alteration of FHIT in betel associated oral carcinoma. J-Pathol. 2002 Mar; 196(3): 300-6.
  11. Chen, -C-L; Chi,-C-W; Liu, -T-Y. Hydroxuyl radical formation and Oxidative DNA damage induced by areca quied invivo. J- Oral-Med 1998 Oct; 27(9): 428-33.
  12. Enwonwa- Co; Maks-VI. Bionutrition and oral cancer in human. Crit-Rev- Oral- Bio-Med, 1995; 6(1): 5-7.
  13. Bryne M, Nielsen K, Koppang HS, et al. Reproducibility of two malignancy grading systems with reportedly prognostic value for oral cancer patients. J Oral Pathol Med 1991; 20:369-72.
  14. Annearoth G14 1 14 A methodologic study of histologic classification and grading of malignancy in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Scand J Dent Res 1984; 92:448-68.

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr Arvind Ghanghoria

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.