For most head and neck cancer, the current purpose of chemotherapy is hard to cure, but one of the measures as a comprehensive treatment, chemotherapy can improve survival rate of head and neck cancer.
Head and neck cancer a combination of chemotherapy and surgery (1) preoperative chemotherapy in patients without surgical stimulation, nutrition and general conditions are good, strong tolerance to drugs, drugs make good absorption, distribution, get better effect. Preoperative chemotherapy combined with surgical treatment of head and neck cancer effect is positive, the Department of Oral and maxillofacial squamous cell carcinoma of the total effective rate was 92.5%.
Approach from the administration, said combination therapy is better than the single drug, high-dose intermittent administration than continuous administration of small doses is better; route more commonly administered by intravenous infusion or the impact of preoperative chemotherapy of time P, the current do not advocate for too long, so as not to delay timing of surgery to a course of treatment as well.
Head and neck cancer a combination of chemotherapy and surgery, (2) postoperative chemotherapy in head and neck cancer after chemotherapy treatment of the reliability of the current lack of convincing data. Generally believed that the local tumor bed after surgery marks the formation of epilepsy, poor blood supply, poor drug absorption, efficacy is poor.