[Contribution of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer of the cavum (UCNT): apropos of 47 cases].

The authors present, from a 47 patients retrospective study, the place of BAC chemotherapy in the treatment of undifferenciated nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Twenty three patients treated with exclusive radiation therapy are compared with 24 patients treated with three courses of BAC chemotherapy prior to and after radiation therapy. The procedure using associated chemotherapy permits to increase the 5 years survival rate up to 20% more and to obtain a 100% primary response of the tumor. This encouraging results should be confirmed by a prospective randomized study about a great number of patients.