Advances in Transoral Approaches for Laryngeal Cancer
Author: Cesare Piazza
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 288945777X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in an era of increasing availability of highly technological tools that allow for reducing, where possible, the invasiveness of the surgical procedures needed to remove cancer. Also in the head and neck area, transoral procedures increasingly replace the traditional, more invasive, open access procedures. Crucial developments promoting this evolution were the popularization of transoral laser microsurgery and, more recently, transoral robotic approaches. It is logical to expect that these approaches will entail better function for the patients, and thus better quality of life, provided that the obtained oncological radicality is the same or better than that obtained with the more invasive procedures of the past. All these “logical” assumptions still need confirmation and validation on large and independent series, however. This eBook collects the results of some of the most recent research efforts in this field. It contains studies aimed at advancing surgical technology and oncological philosophy, as well as studies assessing the oncological as well as the functional outcome following the application of these techniques. In this way this e-book aims at critically assessing and, where justified, boosting the development and popularization of these transoral approaches. The overall aim is evidently to improve both the oncological as well as the functional outcomes for the patient with laryngeal cancer.