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Value of Interstitial and Intracavitary Radiation

Basil S. Hilaris, MD; John S. Lewis, MD; Ulrich K. Henschke, MD, PhD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1968;87(5):506-510.

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APPROXIMATELY one-half of all patients with cancer of the nasopharynx die from local recurrence without neck node or distant metastases.^1-3 The care of these patients thus constitutes a major problem in the management of cancer of the nasopharynx.

In 1940, Martin and Blady⁴ stated "if the growth recurs in the nasopharynx after local irradiation, the same dose cannot be repeated even after a long interval, since the local tissues never return to normal. In the average cases the patient will probably be better if such local recurrences are left alone." However, Schmidt⁵ reported in 1962 that four of 26 patients treated for local recurrence were living and apparently free of disease at the time of report. Little et al¹ in 1963 reported a patient with recurrence surviving two years after retreatment free of disease. Hare and Crews⁶ in 1963 reported that four of 13 patients . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Radiation Therapy and the Head and Neck Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, and the Cornell University Medical College, New York.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 8, 1967.

Read before the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery, Montreal, May 23, 1967.

Reprint requests to 444 E 68 St, New York 10021 (Dr. Hilaris).

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