Resection Margins in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery: An Update of Residual Disease and Field Cancerization

Resection Margins in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery: An Update of Residual Disease and Field Cancerization

Surgery is one of the mainstays of head and neck cancer treatment, and aims at radical resection of the tumor with 1 cm tumor-free margins to obtain locoregional control. Surgical margins are evaluated by histopathological examination of the resection specimen. It has been long an enigma that approx...

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Main Authors: Annouk S. Pierik, C. René Leemans, Ruud H. Brakenhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Cancers
Subjects:
head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
residual disease
field cancerization
recurrence
second primary tumor
molecular diagnosis
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/11/2635

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