title: Evaluation of voice by patients and close relatives following different laryngeal cancer treatments.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess perception of life style change among laryngeal cancer patients. Seventy-five patients (total laryngectomy 35, supraglottic laryngectomy 15, hemilaryngectomy 12, radiotherapy eight, laser cordectomy five) and close relatives responded to a questionnaire and interview eliciting perception of: 1) posttreatment voice quality; 2) side effects of treatment vocationally and socially; and 3) degree of vocal or communicative change associated with vocational or social change. Whereas 43% of the patients reported vocational change and 37% reported social change, 88% expressed satisfaction with their posttreatment voices. This may have been due to the perceptions of the relatives, who generally had a more positive view of the patients' voices. Although laryngeal cancer had an impact on patient life style, patients seldom related this to vocal dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Schuller
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trudeau
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bistline
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: LaFace
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D008019:Life Style; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D013060:Speech; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014831:Voice; D014833:Voice Quality