Abstract
Sixty-four cases of carcinoma of the tongue treated in Kure National Hospital from 1972 to 1981 were reviewed.
In most cases primary lesions were treated by interstitial irradiation and cervical me-tastsis by surgery.
According to TNM classification, 24 cases were in T1, 26 in T2 and 14 in T3.
Just before the initial treatment, 16 cases showed evidence of cervical metastasis. Late cervical metastasis was found in 13 cases.
Radical neck dissection was performed in 17 cases having cervical metastasis.
The five year crude survival rate of 64 cases was 46.8%. (Stage I : 76.5%, Stage II: 61.5%, Stage III: 23.1%, Stage IV: 0%)
The major cause of death was the failure of the management of cervical metastasis.
