[An evaluation of the multidisciplinary treatment of carcinoma of the maxillary antrum in head and neck surgery].

Radiation therapy combined with surgery or regional chemotherapy was given to 114 cases of squamous cell carcinoma of the maxillary antrum from 1972 to 1983 at Gunma Cancer Center. The each treatment method was contributed to successful multidisciplinary treatment consists of partial maxillectomy, radiation therapy doses of 40 Gy and regional chemotherapy using 5 FU doses of over 2,000 mg. The 5 year cumulative survival rate was 34.7% in this study. The role of minor surgery of the antrum after radiation and chemotherapy was available for irradiated necrotizing tumor tissue, residual lesion or bone necrosis of the antrum. This additional surgery was very useful as a post radio-chemotherapeutic treatment in this study of multidisciplinary treatment.