Surgery and Radiation Therapy With or Without Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Mouth Cancer
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
1969-12-31
Target enrollment:
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Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so
they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. It
is not yet known if surgery plus radiation therapy is more effective with or without
chemotherapy for treating mouth cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of surgery and radiation
therapy with or without chemotherapy in treating patients with stage II, stage III, or stage
IV mouth cancer.