Primary surgical therapy for locally limited oral tongue cancer.

According to the literature, positive nodal disease is one of the most influential prognostic factors in patients with head and neck carcinomas [ 7 – 9 ] This was confirmed by the present analysis: positive neck disease (pN+) was detected in 34.2% of our cases and was associated with a poorer prognosis, affecting the overall and disease-specific survival rates to a highly significant extent.

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Carrying out adjuvant therapy may therefore have contributed to eliminating possibly significant differences due to these negative prognostic factors.

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