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The surgical management of cancers of the cheek
Author(s) -
Bakamjian Vahram Y.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930060402
Subject(s) - medicine , cheek , radiation therapy , immunotherapy , chemotherapy , radical surgery , surgery , general surgery , cancer
Despite advances in radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, radical surgery still remains by far the single most effective means for controlling advanced cancers of the cheek, including their local extensions and regional metastases into lymph nodes. The destructive and incapacitating nature of radical extirpative management, however, is prohibitive unless they can be neutralized by the judicious application of reconstructive techniques for effective, safe, and expeditious rehabilitation.