CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF CANCER OF THE LARYNX AT THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL, CHINA MEDICAL COLLEGE, SHENYANG
1987 Volume 30 Issue 5 Pages 589-594
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1987 Volume 30 Issue 5 Pages 589-594
We have treated many patients with cancer of the larynx in the First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical College, Shenyang. Cancer of the larynx occurs more frequently in Shenyang, China than in Osaka, Japan. In Shenyang, cancer of the larynx is quite common.
The ratio of males to females is usually given as 10 to 1. However, in Shenyang, its ratio was 1.8 to 1. The mean age distrubition of patients was in 4 th decades, about 10 years younger than that of Osaka. Of classification of this cancer, 75% were of supraglottic type in contrast to glottic type of about 25%. 97% of the patients were smokers.
Various kinds of partial laryngectomy and total laryngectomy were attempted according to the stages. The five-year cure in partial laryngectomy was 75.6%(n=276).
