Elective versus Therapeutic Neck Dissection in Node-Negative Oral Cancer

Anil D’Cruz; Richa Vaish; Neeti Madan Kapre; Mitali Dandekar; Sudeep Gupta; Rohini Hawaldar; Jai Prakash Agarwal; Gouri Pantvaidya; Devendra Chaukar; Anuja Deshmukh; Shubhada Kane; Supreeta Arya; Sarbani Ghosh Laskar; Pankaj Chaturvedi; Prathamesh Pai; Sudhir Nair; Deepa Nair; Rajendra Badwe

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1506007

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Among patients with early-stage oral squamous-cell cancer, elective neck dissection resulted in higher rates of overall and disease-free survival than did therapeutic neck dissection. (Funded by the Tata Memorial Centre; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00193765.).

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Elective versus Therapeutic Neck Dissection in Node-Negative Oral Cancer

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