Voice-Related Quality of Life after Treatment for Laryngeal Cancer
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There are many options to treat laryngeal cancers : definitive irradiation with or without concurrent chemotherapy, endoscopic CO<SUB>2</SUB> LASER surgery, partial surgery techniques, and total laryngectomy. Few studies have reported on vocal function and quality of life (QOL) of patients after definitive treatment for laryngeal cancer, using single voice related QOL measures. The aim of this study was to examine voice related QOL in patients treated with various modalities using questionnaires for Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) and Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10). Between August 2006 and February 2007, survey data from these questionnaires were obtained from a total of 130 patients. These patients had received definitive treatment for laryngeal cancers, were followed-up at the Hokkaido University Hospital, and were alive with no evidence of malignancy at the time of survey. The mean V-RQOL scores of the patients who had received radiation therapy (n=59), chemoradiotherapy (n=29), laser surgery (n=14) and total laryngectomy (n=26) as the final treatment for laryngeal cancer were 92.2, 92.9, 85.5, and 68.5, respectively, and the mean VHI-10 values were 2.95, 2.34, 5.43, and 11.12, correspondingly. Two patients who had received partial surgery were not included in this analysis. Such measures of quality of life are important to help judge overall effectiveness of treatment options for laryngeal cancers.
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