Purpose: As a common head and neck tumor, laryngeal cancer has attracted heightened attention for its treatment and prognosis. Surgery and radiotherapy were mainly therapeutic approaches in laryngeal cancer, and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) was a precision treatment way in radiotherapy. However, the therapeutic effect of surgery plus IMRT in laryngeal cancer was rarely reported. This study aims to determine the effect of IMRT on the treatment of patients with laryngeal cancer.
Methods: A total of 125 patients with laryngeal cancer were collected and retrospectively analyzed based on their clinical data and follow-up results. These patients had a clear treatment plan for surgery and intensity-modulated radiotherapy.
Results: Smoking, lymph node metastasis, TNM staging and therapeutic approaches could affect the survival of patients with laryngeal cancer. It was shown that the laryngeal function retention rate in the simple IMRT group was significantly higher than the simple surgery group and surgery plus IMRT group. The 5-year survival rate of surgery plus IMRT, simple surgery and simple IMRT were 82.86%, 53.85% and 43.33%, respectively. The locoregional recurrences rate of surgery plus IMRT, simple surgery and simple IMRT were 14.29%, 34.62% and 43.33%.
Conclusion: Surgery plus IMRT was a feasible and efficacious treatment technique for patients with laryngeal cancer, which effectively prolong the survival time of patients.
Keywords: Intensity-modulated radiotherapy; Laryngeal cancer; Prognosis; Surgery; Therapeutic effects.
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