Irradiation for early vocal cord cancer saves life and voice
Abstract
In early vocal cord carcinoma, radiation therapy with surgery held in reserve is the treatment of choice.
That's the conclusion of a retrospective study of 177 patients treated during a 26-year period at the Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis. At mean tenyear follow-up, there was 95% patient survival, 90% voice preservation, and 96% tumor control.
Reporting to the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiologists...