Quality of Life in a Patient with Total Laryngectomy Without Neck Dissection for Stage III Laryngeal Carcinoma
A Case Report with EORTC QLQ-C30
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.220206.035How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Laryngeal Carcinoma; EORTC QLQ- C30 Version 3; Laryngectomy; Radiotherapy; Neck Dissection
- Abstract
Laryngeal cancer is a malignancy on larynx that may occur in glottis, supraglottic and subglottic. This malignancy is a second most carcinoma in head and neck area Clinical manifestation such as dysphonia, breathing obstruction, dysphagia, odynophagia, and hemoptysis. Reported a laryngeal cancer with total laryngectomy without neck dissection combined with radiotherapy which has promising result with a good quality of life. a 62-year-old male with supraglottic carcinoma stage III T3N1M0 complaining severe shortness of breath accompanied by voice abnormality like hoarseness and dysphagia. History of tobacco smoking for 42 years, about 10-12 tobacco sticks per day. Follow up observation for the first year show a good quality of life according to EORTC QLQ-C30 version 3. On the second year, the quality of life is getting better and there were an improvement in physical activity, independent self-care, and no sign of recurrency. Total laryngectomy without neck dissection followed by radiotherapy give promising result with good quality of life within 30 months of observation according to EORTC QLQ-C30 version 3.
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TY - CONF AU - Tengku Reza Alfisyah AU - Benny Kurnia AU - Lily Setiani AU - Marhaban Marhaban PY - 2022 DA - 2022/02/21 TI - Quality of Life in a Patient with Total Laryngectomy Without Neck Dissection for Stage III Laryngeal Carcinoma BT - Proceedings of the 2nd Global Health and Innovation in conjunction with 6th ORL Head and Neck Oncology Conference (ORLHN 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 184 EP - 188 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.220206.035 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.220206.035 ID - Alfisyah2022 ER -