Chemotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
- 13 January 1983
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 308 (2) , 75-79
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198301133080204
Abstract
SQUAMOUS-CELL carcinoma of the head and neck accounts for five per cent of the cases of cancer in the United States. Only one third of patients with this neoplasm present with localized disease easily curable by surgery and radiation. These treatment methods, however, have not provided adequate tumor control in the majority of patients who present with advanced local and regional disease. Local recurrences occur in up to 60 per cent of these patients, and distant metastases develop in 20 to 30 per cent; survival remains poor (0 to 40 per cent).1 , 2 Until recently, chemotherapy has been reserved only for . . .Keywords
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