… stage tonsillar fossa carcinoma. Extensive lesions that invade the base of the tongue or
metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy have less satisfactory tumor … oncologists and surgeons; our …

… The choice of surgical treatment of primary lesions located in the tonsil¬ lar region has
changed since our ear¬ lier report. Then, 85% of patients who had resection of their primary tumor …

… with tumors arising in the tonsillar fossa were included in this report. The tonsillar fossa is …
normally occupied by the palatine tonsil and is bounded by the tonsillar pillars and the base of …

… Presently, we recommend prophylactic treatment of NO disease in tonsillar fossa cancer …
surgery with postoperative radiation therapy when indicated for advanced tonsillar fossa cancer …

… Surgery alone for carcinoma of the tonsillar region has been … with surgery than with
radiotherapy in some series (surgery 40… number of patients treated with surgery alone was small …

… of the patients had tumors localized to the tonsillar fossa only at diagnosis. Approximately
5% of the patients had extension into the adjacent anterior tonsillar pillar or retromolar trigone, …

… for patients with stage T1 -T2 carcinoma of the tonsillar fossa. In selected T3-T4 cases a
combination of surgery and postoperative irradiation appears to offer better tumor control, but the …

… The treatment used was surgery, radiation, or a combination of preoperative radiation and
surgery. The overall five-year determinate survival for stage I was 93%; stage II, 57%; stage III, …

1.1. The records of 596 patients with previously untreated squamous cell carcinoma of the
tonsillar fossa, base of the tongue, supraglottic larynx, and hypopharynx were reviewed to …

… carcinoma of the tonsillar region. Primary RT was the preferred treatment for essentially
all patients with tonsillar cancer … 1998 American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor-node-…