Abstract

Background: A new four-modality treatment of primary oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas was evaluated with regard to feasibility, tolerance, and survival. Patients and methods: Seventy three operable patients (100%) with histologically proven untreated stage I to stage IV disease received at least one cycle of neoadjuvant intraarterial chemotherapy with 150 mg/m2 cisplatin neutralized with sodium thiosulphate, followed by radical operation for the tumour with a simultaneous selective neck dissection (clinically negative neck), or modified radical neck dissection (nodal involvement), followed by adjuvant chemoradiation over 5 weeks (51.9 Gy, systemic docetaxel 25 mg/m2, once every week). Results: Ninety-six per cent of patients were operated on, 68% had postoperative radiation, 57% concomitant chemotherapy; 44% fulfilled the complete protocol. There have been 11 local or regional recurrences to date, three of which were treated by salvage surgery. Eighteen patients died, in nine of them death was tumour-related. Seventy five per cent lived after a median observation time of 33 months. Cumulative survival was 74% calculated for 4 years. Conclusion: The presented multimodality regimen proved feasible and showed better survival for the whole population and for all tumour stages when compared with the treatment-dependent prognosis index of the DÖSAK (German–Austrian–Swiss Cooperative Group on tumours of the maxillofacial region). Copyright 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. on behalf of European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery.

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