Long-term regional control and survival in patients with "low-risk," early stage oral tongue cancer managed by partial glossectomy and neck dissection without postoperative radiation: The importance of tumor thickness

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1168-1176

  Ganly, Ian ^a   Goldstein, David ^b   Carlson, Diane L ^a   Patel, Snehal G ^a   O'Sullivan, Brian ^c   Lee, Nancy ^a   Gullane, Patrick ^b   Shah, Jatin P ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

oral tongue cancer; outcome; prognostic factors; tumor thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; ORAL TONGUE SQUAMOUS CELL CANCER; PARTIAL GLOSSECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; REGIONAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; TONGUE CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874689757     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27872     Document Type: Article

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