Treatment results for hypopharyngeal cancer by different treatment strategies and its secondary primary- an experience in Taiwan

Table 4 Organ preservation studies of head-and-neck cancers

Author	Year of collection	Case number	Cancer subsite	Treatment	Survival rate	Organ preservation rate
VALCSG[11]		332	Stage III/IV LAx	Surgery	68% at 2 yr
				Induction C/T + RT	68% at 2 yr	64% at 2 yr
Malone et al.[25]	1993-2000	40	Stage III/IV BOT	OP+adj-CCRT	74.7% at 2 yr	-
Sewnaik et al.[5]	1985-1994	893	HPx	Surgery and RT	32% at 5 yr
Adelstein et al.[24, 24]	1989-2002	222	All head and neck	CCRT	65.7% at 5 yr	62.2% at 5 yr
Soo et al.[4]		119	All head and neck	Surgery	50% at 3 yr^#
				CCRT	40% at 3 yr^#	45% at 3 yr
Hanna et al.[7]	1996-2002	127	OPx, LAx, HPx, OC	CCRT	57% at 3 yr	-
Urba et al.[6]		59	BOT, HPx	Induction C/T + CCRT	64% at 3 yr	52% at 3 yr
Current series	1994-2004	395	HPx	Surgery	18.8% at 5 yr
				CCRT	27% at 5 yr	44.8% at 3 yr 37% at 4 yr

#: disease-free survival; Lax: larynx; BOT: base of tongue; HPx: hypopharynx; OPx: oropharynx; OC: oral cavity

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