[A protocol for the treatment of cancers of the tongue]

The protocole of multidisciplinary therapy of the tongue and base of the tongue tumors in the "Hospital de la Sta. Creu i Sant Pau" is presented. The exposition of the management trends by surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, in our protocole, is followed by the review of the therapeutic indications with special enphasis in the topographic ones in order to plan the surgical treatment. The non advanced tumors will be as well treated by intersticial radiotherapy as by surgery. In the treatment of the advanced tumors the multidisciplinary managament results essential. Depending on the degree of invasion, the topography of the tumor and the outline of therapeutic trials, the therapy will be chosen.