Carcinoma of the posterior wall of the hypopharynx: surgical treatment with larynx preservation.

In the last two decades, there has been an increasing trend towards CRT for the treatment of larynx and hypopharynx cancers, 6 , 11 and in some retrospective studies retrospective studies, it is shown that this did not lead to worse survival outcomes for hypopharyngeal cancer, unlike that of laryngeal cancer, which has significantly declined. 11 , 12 CRT protocols had been reported to have similar outcomes with surgery and postoperative radiotherapy for hypopharyngeal cancer. 13 , 14 However, Kuo et al. published a retrospective study in 2014, which represents the current trend in hypopharyngeal carcinoma treatment in US.

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