Journal Reviews

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Predicting the need for salvage laryngectomy

2 November 2020 | | Head and Neck | chemotherapy, head and neck cancer, machine learning, radiation therapy, salvage laryngectomy

The treatment of laryngeal cancer has seen a shift towards organ preservation strategies with non-surgical treatment offering equivalent survival outcomes. Nonetheless, salvage total laryngectomy (SLT) remains an important curative management option in cases of treatment failure or recurrence. The authors...

KTP laser ablation for early glottic cancer

1 September 2018 | | Laryngeal cancer, early glottic cancer, laser, outcomes, radiation therapy

TLM for glottic carcinoma has historically been performed with a carbon dioxide (CO2) laser. A much smaller literature base has examined the use of potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) laser in this context. This retrospective chart review aims to fill that...