3 treatment options for patients with early laryngeal cancer

For patients with early laryngeal cancer and their families, doctors can generally provide the following options:

1. Surgical treatment

The laryngeal rupture, local vocal cord and tumor removal. The doctor will remove the local tumor and certain normal tissues around it through surgery, and perform frozen sections during the operation to check the safety margin of the resection. Finally, according to the results of the gross pathology, if the tumor is completely removed, the patient will be followed up as an outpatient and generally no further treatment is required. If the tumor is close to the resection margin, postoperative auxiliary local radiotherapy can be selected. The patient who undergoes surgery needs to have a tracheotomy, and the patient's pronunciation will be affected after the operation.

2. Radiation therapy

It is referred to as radiotherapy, and patients need to go to the radiotherapy department for treatment. Since surgery is not required and good pronunciation function is preserved, most scholars believe that radiotherapy is the first choice for early laryngeal cancer. However, during radiotherapy, laryngeal cancer patients may experience normal phenomena such as neck swelling, local edema, throat pain, increased hoarseness, dry mouth and throat. If breathing difficulties occur, it should be taken seriously.

Patients after radiotherapy should be followed up closely, and those with local recurrence can undergo surgical treatment.

3. Minimally invasive treatment

With the clinical application of laser, plasma and other technologies, local resection of oral tumors can be performed under general anesthesia, and tracheotomy is generally not required. Local bleeding during throat surgery can cause suffocation and must be taken seriously. For patients who undergo minimally invasive treatment without tracheotomy, the surgery requires strict hemostasis and close attention to local bleeding after surgery, and tracheotomy preparation is necessary.