THE purpose of this report is to present the findings of a review of 32 consecutive patients with carcinoma of the tonsil admitted to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center during a ten-year period from 1957-1966. This review includes the age and sex distribution, initial symptoms, clinical staging, pathologic findings, treatment, and survival statistics. Review of the Literature Tumors of the tonsil by definition are those arising in the tonsil or tonsillar fossa including the tonsillar pillars.1Although it is felt that these lesions represent separate entities, it is usually difficult to classify them clinically as to specific site of origin, and they are therefore studied together.2This lesion accounts for 1.5% to 3% of all cancers3-5and is second in frequency only to carcinoma of the larynx among malignancies of the upper respiratory tract.3,6 Cancer of the tonsil is predominantly a disease of males as