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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Department of General and Oncologic Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, 1500 E Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010

(Email: fgrannis@coh.org).

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This article from the Metastatic Lung Tumor Study Group of Japan [1] raises important questions regarding surveillance after treatment of disease caused by tobacco products, which in this case was squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. After treatment of the squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, recurrence and death can result from any of the following: (1) local recurrence at the margin of the prior resection, (2) local recurrence in regional lymph nodes, (3) distant metastasis, and (4) second primary neoplasms caused by tobacco carcinogens.

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