Clinicopathological study of tongue cancer

Cervicel lymph mode metastasis

Abstract

Metastasis of primary tongue cancer to the cervical lymph nodes was investigatedin 40 patients who had been diagnosed and treated between 1974 and 1983 in the Departmet of Oral Surgery, Kanagawa Dental College. The three-and five-year survival rates were both 553, and late metastasis was related to poor prognosis. It is considered that cervical lymph node metastasis of tongue cancer is closely related to the size of primary tumor, histological malignancy and nuclear DNA content in cancer cells and also that recurrence in the neck after radical neck dissection and its prognosis are related to the area number of lymph node metastasis and reaction patterns of the lymph nodes.