Brachytherapy of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Nasal Vestibule

Lymph node metastasis in nasal vestibule cancer: A review

“…Eversen et al 25 reported on 23 patients with SCCNV and N0 necks for whom the treatment included brachytherapy with or without local surgery or external beam radiotherapy. Even though no elective lymph node irradiation was given to any of them, only 1 patient had development of regional recurrence that was successfully salvaged by surgery.…”

“…The incidence of reported positive nodes in SCCNV is depicted in Table I. [4][5][6]11,12,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]31,34,35 CONCLUSION SCCNV cancer is an uncommon isolated form of cancer, possibly originating in the mucocutaneous junction and is usually smoking induced. The incidence of synchronous or delayed regional metastases is higher than 20% in about half of the reported series.…”

T stage as prognostic factor in irradiated localized squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule

“…This may suggest that in many reports distribution of T stages does not represent a real Figure because the absence of T3-staged tumors. 10,14,17,18 Also in our series, using the AJCC system, there were no T3 tumors ( Table 2). The staging system of Wang 16 (Table 1) seems more tailored to the growth characteristics of nasal vestibule carcinoma and allows for a more realistic distribution of T stages.…”

Outcome and toxicity profile after brachytherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule

“…Because of the easy access to the nasal vestibule, brachytherapy is an excellent treatment option, and shows even better tumor control than external beam radiotherapy . With the exception of Levendag et al, most published series on brachytherapy are limited by the small number of patients and the combination of different treatment modalities …”