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Genetically altered fields as origin of locally recurrent head and neck cancer: a retrospective study.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jun 2004
Tabor Maarten P, Brakenhoff Ruud H, Ruijter-Schippers Henrique J, Kummer J Alain, Leemans C René, Braakhuis Boudewijn J M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Surgeons treating patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) rely heavily on histology to decide whether the resection margins are tumor free and subsequent adjuvant treatments can be omitted. However, despite the presence of tumor-free margins, 10-30% of HNSCC patients still develop a locally recurrent tumor. Evidence is available that recurrent cancer develops from either (a)....
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