Godoy & Godoy technique of cervical stimulation in the reduction of edema of the face after cancer treatment.

The estimated number of cases of cancer of the lips and mouth in Brazil in 2007 was 10 380 among men and 3780 among women.1 Of the cancers of lips and mouth (buccal mucous membranes, gum, hard palate, tongue and mouth floor), lip cancer is the most common in Caucasians.1 Cancer of the other regions of the mouth mainly affect over 40-year-old men, in whom the risk increases with smoking, alcohol ingestion, bad buccal hygiene and inappropriate use of dental prosthesis.2 The symptoms include the appearance of superficial ulcers, white or red blotches in the buccal mucous membrane, or even cervical lymphadenomegalia.2 Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, either alone or combined are the applicable therapeutic methods for cancer of the mouth. Complications of the surgical and radiotherapeutic treatment include …