“…The curability of recurrent head and neck cancer When the efficacy of treatment is assessed by survival for 5 years it is necessary to know whether it is possible to survive for 5 years with cancer present. Martin and his associates (Martin and Pflueger, 1935;Martin and Blady, 1940;Sugarbaker, 1940, 1941;Martin, 1941Martin, , 1942Martin, , 1947Martin, , 1954MacComb and Martin, 1942) presented their results by the 'net' method. There were 2 per cent of (Table VII).…”