Awake videolaryngoscopy intubation is an excellent strategy to adopt in patients with laryngeal cancer, particularly when potentially complicated intubation is expected.
Awake Orotracheal Intubation Shown Successful in Four Patients with Laryngeal Cancer
Awake videolaryngoscopy intubation is an excellent strategy to adopt in patients with laryngeal cancer, particularly if potentially complicated intubation is expected.
Tumor, Host, and Treatment Factors Define Laryngeal Cancer Outcomes
Optimal outcomes for a laryngeal cancer patient can be achieved when taking into account tumor, host, and treatment factors.
Sociodemographics Affect Treatment, Outcome of Advanced Laryngeal Cancer
In patients with advanced laryngeal cancer, younger patients and those residing in a county with a low median household income are more likely to receive surgical therapy, and females and married patients are at a lower risk of dying from cancer.
Facility and Case Volume Tied to Cancer Death Rates
Patients with cancer of the larynx who are treated at teaching and research hospitals that see high volumes of such patients are the least likely to die within a year of their diagnoses, researchers said at the annual meeting of the American Head and Neck Society.
A Swing of the Pendulum?
For years, radical surgery was the only treatment for head and neck cancer (HNSCC).
IOM Report: Asbestos Can Cause Laryngeal Cancer
A committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) here has concluded that there is enough scientific evidence to state that exposure to asbestos causes cancer of the larynx.
Award-Winning Theses Shed New Light on Treatment Modalities, Disease Etiology
Consider this: Over the past two decades, data from both the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program and the National Cancer Database indicate that the survival rates for patients with laryngeal cancer have decreased.