Tongue Cancer

Researchers at Kyushu Dental College release new data on tongue cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 20th, 2007

Scientists discuss in 'Intraoperative surgical clearance confirmation of tongue carcinomas using ultrasound' new findings in tongue cancer. "The existence of tumor cells on the surgical margin can be shown in frozen sections," researchers in Kitakyushu, Japan report.

"However, there has been no method to obtain information about surgical clearance intraoperatively. We propose a simple method to confirm the surgical clearance of tongue carcinomas during surgery Just after the resection of a tumor in a conventional manner, the resected fresh specimen was immersed in a gelatine solution, maintaining its original shape and orientation, and refrigerated for solidification of...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-11-20)

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