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Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer Treatment (PDQ®) - Treatment Options for Recurrent Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer

Treatment of recurrent lip and oral cavity cancer may include the following:

Surgery, if radiation therapy was used before.
Surgery and/or radiation therapy, if surgery was used before.
A clinical trial of chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy.
A clinical trial of hyperthermia therapy.

This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.

Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with recurrent lip and oral cavity cancer.

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Last Updated: September 20, 2007

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