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The history of treatment of head and neck cancer has been one of continual applications of new techniques in the hope of improving cure rates and functional rehabilitation after tumor ablation. Before the 1960s, the drive to resect head and neck cancer (seemingly at all costs) frequently resulted in radical ablation with horrendous deformities and often significant morbidity. During the 1960s and 1970s combination therapy, using radiotherapy and surgery, yielded higher cure rates than aggressive ablative surgery alone in many circumstances. At that same time, several surgeons established the concept that less tissue could be removed in many cases without compromising the cancer cure rates [1–12]. Since the 1970s, however, there has been a virtual plateau in the cure rates for tumors of most regions of the head and neck.
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Klotch, D.W., Futran, N.D. (2019). Considerations for Reconstruction of the Head and Neck Oncologic Patient. In: Greenberg, A., Schmelzeisen, R. (eds) Craniomaxillofacial Reconstructive and Corrective Bone Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1529-3_23
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