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What is selective neck dissection in early oral cancer?
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Surgery: Surgery to remove the cancerous mass and surrounding lymph nodes with minimal damage to the neck area.
Answered 6/6/2013
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Surgery: The neck dissection is a surgical procedure for control of neck lymph node metastasis from tumors of the head and neck (including oral cancer). This is to remove lymph nodes from one side of the neck into which cancer cells may have migrated. Selective means lymph nodes are grouped into regions corresponding to the cancer location and only nodes from that group are removed.
Answered 10/4/2016
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