Covers radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer, which is mostly squamous cell carcinoma, and how the choice between surgery, radiotherapy alone or combined treatment depends on tumour size and stage. It notes when radiotherapy is used alone, including palliative cases, and describes the typical course length and side effects such as mouth ulcers, dry mouth and dysphagia. It ends by naming external beam radiation as the most common type and brachytherapy as rarer.
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Topic 25 of 50 in the MU Sofia syllabus for Nuclear Medicine (Medicine, Year 4). The free AceMed note covers it in 1 section, about 115 words (1 min of reading), with 11 flashcards.
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Radiotherapy in treatment of larynx
Radiotherapy in treatment of larynx
These are mostly SCCs. Treatment is size dependent. Early stage laryngeal cancer may be removed via surgery (endoscopic) or radiotherapy alone. Larger tumors will require adjunctive/neoadjunctive radiology with surgery, in the latest stage cancers, chemotherapy may be used as well (chemoradiotherapy). Radiotherapy may also be used in isolation in cases where the patient is too ill to survive surgery and/or the patient is going to die and it is a palliative case.
Radiotherapy course takes 3-7 weeks, the most notable side effect is mouth ulcers with dry mouth which may never resolve itself. Patients may have dysphagia.
Two main types of radiation:
External beam radiation (most common type)
Brachytherapy (rarer in these cases)
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