Treatment Options for Recurrent Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer
Treatment of recurrent lip and oral cavitycancer 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.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent lip and oral cavity cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
General Information About Oropharyngeal Cancer
Oropharyngeal cancer is uncommon and typically involves patients in the fifth through seventh decades of life; men are afflicted 3 to 5 times more often than women.[1,2,3] Similar to other cancers of the head and neck, tobacco and alcohol abuse represent the most significant risk factors for the development of oropharyngeal cancer.[3,4] (Refer to the PDQ summaries on Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment and Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer Treatment for more information.) Other risk factors may include:[5] ...
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