title: [Dilemmas and controversies related to cancers of the anterior laryngeal commissure].
abstract: From diagnostic and therapeutical aspect, the cancers of the anterior laryngeal commissure are the separate category in glottic cancers. But, they have not been individually classified in the majority of statistical reports, and, therefore, the incidence of the anterior commissural cancer should be taken with precaution. The issue of therapeutical strategy is controversial, considering the options and limitations of resections of the anterior commissural tumors, within the conception of oncological radicalism. Dilemmas are being especially faced with in radiotherapy, given the failures and unsatisfactory radiotherapeutical results. The prospective clinical study included the analysis of the incidence of primary and secondary cancers of the anterior commissure of the larynx. The follow-up of five-year survivals allowed for the establishment of efficiency of the applied therapeutical methods. The results of five-year survival in patients treated by primary surgery were highly more significant in relation to results obtained by radiotherapy of patients.
authors.affiliation: Institut za otorinolaringologiju i maksilofacijalnu hirurgiju, Klinicki centar Srbije, Beograd.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Djukić
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stanković
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stevandić
authors.forename: Lj
authors.initials: Lj
authors.lastname: Janosević
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pavlović
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005931:Glottis; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate