title: [Cancer of the tongue in women. A propos of 40 cases].
abstract: Forty women, average age of 54, have been treated in first intention or after the failure of a previous treatment, for a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Eighteen (45%) had no risk factors and 9 were under forty years of age. The oral tongue was the most frequent localisation in the group of patient without risk factors. Nineteen local failures were observed. Actuarial three-years survival was 36%. We believe that the poor prognosis of female tongue squamous carcinoma requires aggressive treatment with combined surgery and brachytherapy on the primary lesion and prophylactic neck dissection even in patients without palpable cervical nodes.
authors.affiliation: Service d'O.R.L. et de chirurgie cervico-faciale, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gehanno
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Enaux
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Depondt
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guedon
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Cancer de langue chez la femme. A propos de 40 cas.