Quality of life after reconstruction with a free forearm flap in patients who have survived oral cancer for more than five years

To our knowledge, no study has specifically evaluated the quality of life (QoL) after reconstruction with a radial forearm free flap (RFFF) in long-term (more than five years) survivors of oral cancer. We therefore analysed the records of 27 disease-free patients who had survived for more than five years, and who had had their tumours resected and immediate reconstruction with a RFFF between 2001 and 2011 (Table 1).

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