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The primary treatment for nasopharynx cancer has been irradiation therapy; by convention, it has long been considered inaccessible to surgeons for reasons that are not clear. What is clear is that radiation therapy produces very good results for primary treatment, perhaps better than surgical excision although randomized trials have not been performed. For those patients who recur in the neck, a neck dissection has long produced the best results. An optional approach for nasopharynx recurrence is less clear, although re-irradiation has been the standard treatment.
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Fee, W.E. (1990). Surgical Resection for Recurrent Nasopharynx Cancer. In: Jacobs, C. (eds) Carcinomas of the Head and Neck. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 52. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1499-8_4
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