What is the price of functional surgical organ preservation in local-regionally advanced supraglottic cancer? Long-term outcome for partial laryngectomy followed by radiotherapy in 32 patients.

Aims And Background: To achieve the goal of organ preservation, both a chemoradiotherapy and a conservative surgical approach can be proposed. The aim of the study was to review all patients treated in our Institute with conservative surgery and postoperative radiotherapy for locally advanced supraglottic tumor.

Methods And Study Design: A retrospective analysis of 32 patients treated between 2000 and 2010 was performed.

Three-dimensional conformal postoperative radiotherapy in patients with parotid tumors: 10 years' experience at the European Institute of Oncology.

Aims And Background: Salivary gland malignancies are rare. The aim of our study was to investigate radiotherapy-related toxicity and clinical outcome in patients treated at our division with postoperative radiotherapy (pRT) for parotid tumors.

Methods And Study Design: Forty-three consecutive patients (32 with primary parotid tumors, 9 with parotid metastases and 2 with recurrent benign diseases) were retrospectively analyzed.