Role of Cellular Dissociation Scoring as a Prognostic Factor in Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common malignancy encountered in the head and neck region. Traditionally it has been graded into well, moderate and poorly differentiated based on the morphological features. Staging plays an important role in the prognosis and thereby survival. The lymph node status is the most important predictor. In recent years, extensive research is going on cellular dissociation grading (CDG) which is based on cell nest size and tumor budding. We have undertaken this study to evaluate cellular dissociation grading and correlate it with lymph node status so as to consider this CDG as an independent prognostic factor in Squamous cell carcinoma.