For those who suffer from tongue or oral cavity cancer, it has been found out that surgery is the better option than chemotherapy sessions.
A team of scientists from University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center concluded that patients with tongue cancer who started their treatment with chemotherapy fared significantly worse than patients who received surgery first.
“To a young person with tongue cancer, chemotherapy may sound like a better option than surgery with extensive reconstruction. But patients with oral cavity cancer can’t tolerate induction chemotherapy as well as they can handle surgery with follow-up radiation,” said study author Douglas Chepeha, professor of otolaryngology.
“Our techniques of reconstruction are advanced and offer patients better survival and functional outcomes,” Chepeha added.
“Despite the proven success of this strategy in laryngeal cancer, induction chemotherapy should not be an option for oral cavity cancer, and in fact it results in worse treatment-related complications compared to surgery,” they added.
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