Research
Photodynamic therapy and end-stage tongue base cancer: short communication
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* Corresponding author: Hani Radhi hani_hadi79@hotmail.com
1 Department of Surgery, University College London, London, UK
2 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, AL-Mustansirya University, Baghdad, Iraq
3 Academic Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
4 Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Chase Farm & Barnet NHS Trust, Enfield, UK
5 Head & Neck Unit, University College London Hospital, London, UK
Head & Neck Oncology 2011, 3:49 doi:10.1186/1758-3284-3-49
Published: 7 December 2011Abstract
We previously reported on the outcome of 21 patients with stage IV advanced and/or recurrent tongue base carcinoma subjected to mTHPC-PDT. We continue to develop on the previous work by treating more patients with this unforgiving disease. PDT has shown to be a very successful minimally-invasive surgical tool in managing this pathology. Tumour-associated symptoms were reduced significantly. The overall morbidity and mortality following PDT, in this group of patients, were far less when compared with other conventional modalities.