CPB Ljubljana 2018 course book

Local control with surgery in mobile tongue

71-92% in T1-2

▪ Surgical series offer similar local control rates to LDR-BT series in T1-2 ▪ but tumor tongue excision induces severe anatomic and functional defects (speech, chewing, swallowing), mostly in bulky T2 tongue carcinoma that require extensive resection

Bourgier C . Exclusive low-dose-rate brachytherapy in 279 patients with T2N0 mobile tongue carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 63 ( 2005 ), pp. 434–440