1987 Volume 33 Issue 8 Pages 1574-1577
Twelve cases of squamous cell carcinoma of the lip were retrospectively studied, which were treated in our department between 1974 and 1985. They were 10 males and 2 females and the majority of them occured after the age of sixty. TNM classification was as follows: T 1;3, T2; 4, T3; 3, T4; 2, N 0; 10, N 1; 2, M 0; 12, M 1; 0. They were treated by external irradiation, operation, cryosurgery and chemotherapy as a initial therapy. Recurrence was found in 5 cases. The cryosurgery performed on 7 cases containing 4 recurrent cases, all of which were alive. The 2-year-crude survival rate was 75% and determinated survival rate was 90%.
Recently, the combination therapy as follows was carried out on selected cases and had favorable results cosmetically and functionally, as chemotherapy was at first done to reduce the tumor volume, then cryosurgery was added on the residual tumor.
