[Effectiveness of intra-arterial chemotherapy in the management of intra-oral cancers and their lymphatic metastases].

The effect of complex therapy (intra-arterial chemotherapy and radical surgery) on primary tumours and their metastases was studied in 38 oral squamous cell cancer cases. The therapy had different effect on the primary tumours and their lymph node metastases. There was a close correlation between the number of metastatic lymph nodes and survival. The extension and the chemotherapeutic regression rate of metastatic lesions showed a significant correlation with patients' survival.