Clinical outcome of patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

A new combined therapy for functional organ preservation and survival in lateral oropharyngeal wall cancer

“…The reported overall survival rate of patients with oropharyngeal cancer in Japan ranges from 40% to 50% [10][11][12], but there have been only a few reports of survival in patients with oropharyngeal cancer according to the subsite of the disease. Ebisumoto et al [13] reported that the 5-year cause-specific survival rate in 47 patients with stage III or IV lateral oropharyngeal wall cancer was 55%.…”