As for the most common cancer site, Amis had a equal incidence of oral cavity cancer and hypopharyngeal cancer other aborigines developed nasopharygneal cancer most frequently. 頭頸癌好發部位方面,阿美族的口腔癌與下咽癌病人人數相當,其他族群則是罹患鼻咽癌為主,不同於漢族病人以口腔癌最常見。
Oropharyngeal cancer, sometimes referred to as throat cancer, is a cancer that develops in the part of the throat located just behind the mouth, called the oropharynx. 口咽部腫瘤,有時稱之為咽癌,是發生在口的後部稱為咽的地方的腫瘤。