Patients Eighty Years Old and Over with Malignant Tumors in Head and Neck

Abstract

Between 1965 and 1985, sixteen patients eighty years old and over with malignant tumors in head and neck were treated. They consisted of four patients with maxillary cancer, three patients with laryngeal cancer, three patients with tongue cancer, three patients with malignant lymphoma, one patient with parotid cancer, one patient with parotid cancer with malignant melanoma of the nose, and one patient with external ear cancer with maxillary cancer. Most of the patients in whom local disease had been eradicated died within two to three years after the treatment.
Elderly patients should be treated with consideration of other geriatric affections. None of the patients should reject curative treatment because of their age.