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- Title
Long-term analysis of bilateral versus unilateral neck dissection in the treatment of early-stage supraglottic laryngeal cancer.
- Authors
Ünsaler, Selin; Toros, Sema Zer; Yılmaz, Aslı Şahin; Oysu, Çağatay
- Abstract
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of routine bilateral neck dissection on the survival outcomes of supraglottic laryngeal cancer patients with lateralized tumors and clinically negative necks. Patients and Methods: The data of 234 patients surgically treated for supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma between January 2000 and September 2014 were retrospectively collected. Patients treated previously for head and neck cancer, patients who could not be contacted, and those with missing data were excluded. Of the remaining 187 patients, 124 patients with early-stage primaries (T1-T2) (116 males, 8 females; mean age: 55.5±9.5 years; range, 33 to 82 years) were included. Age and sex of the patients, site of the primary tumor, TNM stage, type of the neck dissection, length of follow-up, and survival rates were evaluated. The tumors were classified into three groups according to their relationship with the median line of the larynx, and the neck dissections were recorded as unilateral or bilateral. Recurrences and survival outcomes were evaluated. Results: There was no statistically significant difference in the recurrences according to tumor site groups (p=0.39). Similarly, there was no statistically significant difference in 10-year overall survival rates in patient groups according to the tumor site (p=0.072). We found no statistically significant difference in 10-year overall survival rates between the patients who underwent unilateral and bilateral neck dissection (p=0.580). Conclusion: Long-term survival analysis of 124 patients with supraglottic carcinoma did not show a survival benefit of elective contralateral neck dissection in lateralized supraglottic cancer with contralateral clinically negative neck.
- Subjects
LARYNGEAL cancer treatment; NECK dissection; SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma; CANCER relapse; CLINICAL trials
- Publication
Praxis of Otorhinolaryngology / Kulak Burun Boğaz Uygulamaları, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 3, p81
- ISSN
2587-0408
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5606/kbbu.2021.43660