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Abstract
In our series the data dealing with location, age, sex, duration, size, node involvement,
and grading are comparable to those published elsewhere [2]. Correlation with exposure
to the sun is lower than commonly reported.
Eighty-seven per cent of the patients operated upon were free of tumor for five years.
With radiotherapy 77 per cent were free of tumor. With reoperation the five year survival
rate was 90 per cent for the surgical group and 91 per cent for the irradiated group.
These values are also comparable to those previously published [2,3].
Cure rate of patients with involved nodes was relatively high (44 per cent) [4]. There
was, as described in other reports, a definite inverse relationship between tumor
size, duration, anaplasia, and curability [2–6].
It is interesting that 60 per cent of our patients with postirradiation recurrences
were salvaged by subsequent operation.
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☆This work was supported in part by the University Cancer Research Coordinating Committee.
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