title: Head and neck cancer, treatment, evolution and post therapeutic survival - Part 2: a decade's results 1993-2002.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In the second part of an analysis of a 10-year period of treating oral cancer patients, the focus was the efficiency of treatment, recurrence rates and survival.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 1485 patients with oral and maxillofacial malignant tumours, 1072 cases could be evaluated. The following data were analyzed statistically: patients' charts and medical records including the follow-up reports.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From all patients studied, 811 underwent surgical treatment alone, the mean recurrence rate was 23%. The recurrence rate after surgery plus radiotherapy was 38%; after surgical treatment alone it was 23%; the survival rate at 3 and 5 years post-therapeutically was 49% and 31%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The first choice therapy for carcinomas is surgical. The recurrence rate increased with lymph node involvement and tumour size.
authors: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iuliu Hatieganu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors: Teofil
authors: T
authors: Lung
authors: Oana Cristina
authors: OC
authors: Tăşcău
authors: Horea Artimoniu
authors: HA
authors: Almăşan
authors: Ovidiu
authors: O
authors: Mureşan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology