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Some considerations on radiation therapy of tongue cancer
Author(s) -
Horiuchi Junichi,
Adachi Tadashi
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197108)28:2<335::aid-cncr2820280212>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , tongue , radium , lesion , cancer , lymph node , surgery , radiology , pathology , physics , nuclear physics
In the 9‐year period, 1960 to 1968, 117 patients with cancer of the tongue were treated by radiation therapy. Radiation techniques mainly used were interstitial radon seed or radium therapy to the primary lesion. As for 102 primary cases, the cumulative 5‐year survival rate was 43 ± 5.5% according to the life‐table method. When the primary lesion is relatively small, the radon seed implantation technique has advantages over radium needles in terms of patient comfort and easy applicability. It is highly suggestive that prophylactic lymph node irradiation decreases node metastases and improves the prognosis. Though radionecrotic complications were observed later in about 10% of the cases, successful management was done with the cooperation of oral surgeons.