[Concomitant treatment with gemcitabine and radiotherapy in patients with advanced stages of epidermoid carcinoma originating in the head and neck. A phase II sutdy].

Background: Surgery, radiotherapy or radiotherapy alone (RTA) constitute conventional treatment regimes for advanced stages of squamous cell carcinoma originating in the head and neck mucosa. Nevertheless, the results in advanced regional carcinoma (ARC) are disappointing. The chemotherapy-radiotherapy (CHT-RT) association has shown to be superior to RTA in irresectable disease and in resectable disease it could substitute initial surgery as a rescue alternative.