Treatment Options for Recurrent Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer

Treatment of recurrent lip and oral cavity cancer may include the following:

• Surgery, if radiation therapy was used before.
• Surgery and/or radiation therapy, if surgery was used before.
• A clinical trial of chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy.
• A clinical trial of hyperthermia therapy.

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent lip and oral cavity cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.