Multimodal treatment of patients with minor salivary gland cancer in the case of recurrent disease

Autor: Gregor Heiduschka, Johannes Pammer, Boban M. Erovic, Dietmar Thurnher, Amir Maleki, Matthaeus Ch. Grasl, Christian Schopper, Markus Brunner, Laurenz Vormittag
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Head & Neck. 32:1167-1172
ISSN: 1043-3074
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21312
Popis: Our aim in this study was to identify prognostic factors and the optimal therapeutic management in patients with minor salivary gland carcinomas.Overall and disease-free survival and overall survival after recurrence in patients with adenoidcystic carcinoma (n = 25), mucoepidermoid carcinoma (n = 8), adenocarcinoma (n = 5), carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (n = 4), and others (n = 5) were correlated to clinical data.Overall survival correlated to treatment modality (p = .039) and T classification (p = .003), whereas prolonged disease-free interval correlated to treatment (p.001) and T classification (p = .009). Overall survival after recurrence correlated to treatment of recurrence (p = .006) and initial T classification (p = .02). Multivariate analysis showed that overall survival after recurrence correlated to treatment of recurrence (p = .019) and initial T classification (p = 0.019). T classification was a prognostic factor for overall survival (p = .002) and disease-free interval (p = .002).The initial tumor classification is a clinical predictor for patients' overall and disease-free survival and overall survival after recurrence. Multimodal treatment significantly improves patients' overall survival.
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