Primary Surgical Therapy for Locally Limited Oral Tongue Cancer

Table 1

Demographic and tumor-specific characteristics of the study patients.

Characteristics	Results
Age (years)	Mean: 57.7, median: 56, and range: 31 to 92
Follow-up (months)	Mean: 73.3, range: 24–300
Gender	Male: 188 (71.5), female: 75 (28.5)
Surgical technique (%)	Transoral laser microsurgery: 30 (11.4), electrocautery: 213 (81), and combined transoral-transcervical approach: 20 (7.6)
Adjuvant treatment (%)	No adjuvant therapy: 109 (41.4), RT: 136 (51.7), and RCT: 18 (6.8)
PT classification (%)	pT1: 132 (50.2), pT2: 131 (49.8)
PN classification (%)	pN0: 133 (50.6), pN1: 25 (9.5), pN2: 48 (18.3), pN3: 12 (4.6), and no neck dissection: 45 (17.1)
Differentiation	Well: 66 (25), moderate: 155 (58.9), poor: 39 (14.8), and not differentiated: 3 (1.1)