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Squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx: single-institution outcome analysis of patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2015

R Yasumatsu ,
T Nakashima  and
S Komune
R Yasumatsu*
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
T Nakashima
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
S Komune
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
*
Address for correspondence: R Yasumatsu, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3–1–1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812–8582, Japan Fax: + 81 92 6425685 E-mail: yasuryuj@qent.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

Purpose:

The object of this study was to analyse our experience with the effects of concurrent chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, the treatment results of this therapeutic strategy and a salvage treatment for recurrent oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Methods:

Seventy-five patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma were treated with chemoradiotherapy. The study included twenty-five of these patients who had recurrent oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma after chemoradiotherapy

Results:

The three-year actuarial survival rates for 75 patients by disease stage were as follows: stage II, 100 per cent; stage III, 71.1 per cent; stage IV, 51.7 per cent and overall, 58.2 per cent. The mean time of detection of recurrence was 6.2 months. The total salvage rates of recurrence were 21 per cent. The one and three-year tumour-free actuarial survival rates of those patients who received salvage treatment were 83 and 33 per cent.

Conclusions:

Surgical salvage was only feasible for early recurrent tumour. Close follow-up surveillance of early recurrence is essential after primary treatment of patients with chemoradiotherapy.

Keywords

Oropharyngeal CancerChemoradiotherapySalvage Treatment

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 129 , Issue S2 , March 2015 , pp. S77 - S82
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 2015 

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