[Radiation therapy of oropharyngeal tumors (author's transl)].

The clinical data as well as a statistical evaluation of the treatment of patients with oropharyngeal tumors, who had undergone a combined treatment by interstitial radium therapy, megavoltage irradiation, and operation, lead to the conclusion that better final results and palliation effects may be obtained by a megavoltage irradiation of the tonsillar region and soft palate than by means of ultraradical surgery. Good results have been observed after interstitial radium therapy or electrosurgical operations of keratoid squamous cell carcinomas. The radical operation with preceding telecobalt irradiation, however, is to be preferred in the case of basioglossal squamous cell carcinomas.