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Charles H. Truluck, Jr., MD; F. Johnson Putney, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1971;93(3):271-274.

Abstract
A total of 168 cases of cancer of the tongue base-vallecula, tonsil-tonsillar fossa, and hypopharyngeal area were studied to determine their respective survival rates. The tongue base-vallecula area was involved in 40 cases with a three-year survival rate of 26% and a five-year rate of 22%. In the 41 cases of tonsil-tonsillar fossa lesions, three-year survival rates were 22% and five-year survivals were 6%. Among the 87 patients with lesions of the hypopharynx three-year and five-year survival rates were 14% and 8%, respectively.

Author Affiliations
Charleston, SC

From the Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of South Carolina, 80 Barre St, Charleston, SC.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 27, 1970.

Read before the 12th annual meeting of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery, Hollywood, Fla, April 1970.

Reprint requests to Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of South Carolina, 80 Barre St, Charleston, SC (Dr. Turluck).

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