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In general, early cancers of the oral tongue are best treated with local surgery. For more advanced cancers, surgery followed by radiation probably has the best control rates with the least side effects. (see NCCN guidelines for early and moderate cancers and for more advanced and the radiation dose.) If radiation alone is used it is often necessary to combine the external beam irradiation with a needle implant (interstitial radiation.) |
Good Web Sites with Basic Information about oral tongue cancer: ACS, CancerNet, E-Medicine, Medline Plus, NCI, NIH Typical radiation port film for an early lesion with negative nodes, another port field, nodes, neck nodes at risk Images of tongue cancer: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5,. #6, #7, #8, and PET Some representative studies are noted here: |
5 year relative survival for patients with cancer of the oral
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