Survival trends of patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer treated at a cancer center in São Paulo, Brazil

CONCLUSION: Survival across the two time periods remained stable for oral SCC but showed a significant increase for oropharyngeal SCC, possibly because of improvements in the patients ’ response to radiotherapy, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy, and the use of more accurate diagnostic imaging approaches.
Source: Clinics - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research