Life quality improvement in hoarse patients with early glottic cancer after transoral laser microsurgery.

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Life quality improvement in hoarse patients with early glottic cancer after transoral laser microsurgery.

Head Neck. 2017 Jul 11;:

Authors: Hsin LJ, Lin WN, Fang TJ, Lee LA, Kang CJ, Huang BS, Lin CY, Fan KH, Tsang NM, Hsu CL, Chang JT, Liao CT, Yen TC, Chang KP, Chuang HF, Li HY

Abstract
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the recovery kinetics of voice and quality of life (QOL) over time in patients with early glottic cancer who underwent transoral laser microsurgery (TLM).
METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted in which acoustic and aerodynamic voice assessments and QOL analyses were done using health-related questionnaires (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30-questions [EORTC-QLQ-C30] and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Head and Neck 35-questions [EORTC-QLQ-H&N35]) were administered at designated times.
RESULTS: Most voice laboratory parameters worsened during the first month, then recovered to baseline after 6 months. The QLQ-H&N35 speech subscale was significantly improved. Among the voice laboratory parameters, pretreatment harmonics-to-noise ratio was an independent predictor (P = .041) for improvement on the speech subscale at the endpoint.
CONCLUSION: Despite an initial deterioration of voice and QOL in the first month, patients who underwent TLM recovered to a plateau since the sixth month and then to better than preoperative status afterward. A greater improvement in QOL was seen in patients with poorer baseline voice quality.

PMID: 28695624 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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