Treatment of stage III carcinoma of oral tongue is:
Stage III carcinoma tongue means tumour more than 4 cm in greatest dimension with no neck nodes or tumour of T1 (<2cm),T2 (2-4cm)orT3 (>4cm) with a single ipsilateral node >3cm.Treatment will include wide excision of primary tumour with neck dissection and post-operative radiotherapy.All patients with stage III or stage IV carcinoma require post-operative radiotherapy in addition to surgery as this improves locoregional control of disease.
Oral Cavity
Wide excision
Wide excision with supraomohyoid neck dissection
Wide excision with supraomohyoid neck dissection and post-operative radiotherapy
Radiotherapy delivering 7000 cGy
Wide excision with supraomohyoid neck dissection and post-operative radiotherapy