Chemoradiation component of a combined treatment of oropharyngeal cancer.

Abstract

Treatment of malignant oropharyngeal tumors - one of the most difficult problems of modern oncology. This is caused by the intensive growth of incidence, a large proportion of advanced cancers at the time of primary visit to a doctor and low 5-year survival.  The aim of this study is to improve the efficiency of treatment of patients with oropharyngeal cancer by implementation of the use of self- or neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.