Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and supracricoid partial laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy for advanced endolaryngeal carcinoma classified as T3–T4: 5-year oncologic results
✍ Scribed by Ollivier Laccourreye; Daniel Brasnu; Bernard Biacabe; Stéphane Hans; Serap Seckin; Gregory Weinstein
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1043-3074
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✦ Synopsis
Background. Historically, total laryngectomy with voice-prosthesis insertion and near-total laryngectomy were the surgical options advocated for advanced supraglottic and transglottic tumors classified as T3-T4.
Methods. The present retrospective study reviewed our experience with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and supracricoid partial laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy (SCPL-CHP) in a series of 60 patients with an isolated, untreated, advanced supraglottic/ transglottic invasive squamous cell carcinoma classified as T3-T4.
Results. The Kaplan-Meier 5-year actuarial survival, local failure, nodal failure, and distant metastasis estimates were 72.7%, 8.3%, 9.2%, and 9.8%, respectively. Survival was significantly reduced in patients with nodal failure (p = .001) and distant metastasis (p = .007). Overall, a 91.7% laryngeal preservation rate and a 98.3% local control rate were achieved. Conclusion. Our report was a retrospective analysis and did not present a control group exclusively managed with SCPL-CHP. Therefore, we were unable to demonstrate that the use of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy prior to SCPL-CHP allowed for an increase in local control, laryngeal preservation, and survival. However, the use of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy allowed for remobilization of a fixed arytenoid cartilage in 10 patients who thus became amenable to SCPL-CHP. The key role of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in this series was as a prognostic indicator for suitability for SCPL-CHP in the case of supraglottic-transglottic tumor with arytenoid cartilage fixation. Our data also supported the notion that SCPL-CHP is a valid alternative to total laryngectomy with voice prosthesis insertion and near-total laryngectomy in selected patients with a previously untreated supraglottic/ transglottic invasive squamous cell carcinoma classified as T3-T4. Furthermore, the successful use (in terms of surgical outcome, laryngeal preservation, and survival) of SCPL-CHP after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy suggested that laryngeal organpreservation strategies, in advanced endolaryngeal transglottic and/or supraglottic invasive squamous cell carcinoma, should not be limited to the use of laryngeal radiotherapy after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy.