BACKGROUND Endosonography has been successfully used in staging gastrointestinal cancer, but its value is as yet undetermined in laryngology. METHODS This prospective study includes 84 patients undergoing microlaryngoscopy for laryngeal cancer. The results of endosonography were compared with those of CT and MRI in the 76 surgical cases. RESULTS In the assessment of laryngal cancer, endoson...

BACKGROUND Flavonoids may play an important role in explaining the protective effect of vegetables and fruit against cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS To investigate the relation between flavonoids and laryngeal cancer risk, we have applied data on the composition of foods and beverages in terms of six principal classes of flavonoids to a case-control study of laryngeal cancer conducted from 1992 ...

We analysed the incidence of second primary cancers (SPC) in male laryngeal cancer patients in Slovenia and their survival for the period of 1961-1996. Data were taken from the population-based Cancer Registry of Slovenia. The person-years approach was used and the risk for SPC was expressed as a standardised incidence ratio (SIR). Survival analysis was carried out using the Kaplan-Meier method...

BACKGROUND Tumor regression after induction chemotherapy (ICT) identifies laryngeal cancers that are responsive to chemoradiation. Patient immune parameters have recently been associated with response to chemotherapy and may identify responding patients. A retrospective analysis was performed to determine if pretreatment, circulating T lymphocyte levels predicted ICT response in patients with a...

BACKGROUND Whether the ABO blood group is associated with the survival of patients with laryngeal cancer remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the ABO blood group and clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with laryngeal cancer and assess whether the ABO blood group was associated with prognosis. METHODS We analyzed the records of 1260 pa...

The strategy of organ preservation by applying chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of laryngeal carcinoma, which has been extensively used since 1990s, is now being reviewed regarding its further justification. Despite good results in other localization of head and neck cancer, it has not met the expectations in case of laryngeal cancer. One explanation is the lower participation of human papill...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The primary objective was to determine the incidence of pathologically positive lymph nodes in clinically N0 larynx cancer patients undergoing salvage surgery following nonsurgical primary therapy. Secondary aims included assessment of the impact of laryngeal subsite and neck dissection on disease status and survival. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. METHODS Si...

Laryngeal carcinoma is a common head and neck cancer with poor prognosis. Patients with laryngeal carcinoma usually present late leading to the reduced treatment efficacy and high rate of recurrence. Despite the advance in the use of molecular markers for monitoring human cancers in the past decades, there are still no reliable markers for use to screen laryngeal carcinoma and follow the patien...

CD200 molecule may play a role in local tumor invasion and augmenting the metastatic capacity of squamous cell carcinoma. The objective of the study was to assess by means of flow cytometry the expression of CD200 and its receptor, CD200R, on CD83+ monocyte-derived dendritic cells (Mo-DCs), pulsed or not with autologous tumor cell lysates (aTCL) in patients who suffer from laryngeal carcinoma i...