Question 258 · LDEK · Malignant tumors
Choose correct statement regarding the tongue cancer:
- A. in case of T1 or T2 localized in 2/3 of the anterior part of the tongue, intra-tissue therapy is used.
- B. in 1/3 of all cases it develops in the anterior, movable part of the tongue.
- C. it accounts for 70% of all intraoral cancers.
- D. pain is a late symptom of tongue cancer and occurs when it is significantly advanced.
- E. in case of such cancer localized in the 1/3 of the posterior part of the tongue, the treatment of choice is excision of half of the tongue along with part of the mouth floor with subsequent resection of mandible and radical lymph node dissection.
Hint
Recall which part of the tongue is most often affected, what share of oral cancers the tongue accounts for, and where brachytherapy fits.
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