[Epithelial neoplasms of the head and neck. Study of 72 cases treated with radiotherapy only or combined with chemotherapy].

A comparison between the effects of radiotherapy with and without supplementary chemotherapy in 72 cases of head and neck tumours treated Turin, Oncology Department is reported. The overall results were similar to those in the international literature (59.7% local remissions 2 yr after treatment). Personal experience is cited for the view that radiotherapy alone should always be employed on the satellite lymph node chains in N0 patients (clinically negative nodes), whereas chemotherapy should be added when node positivity (N1 or N2) is apparent at the outset.