RADIOTHERAPY OF EARLY CANCER OF THE LARYNX

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Abstract
Although cancer of the larynx is one of the less common forms of neoplastic disease, it is nevertheless one of the most important. Several aspects of laryngeal cancer command special attention. The majority of lesions affect the true vocal cord, and hoarseness is an early symptom in 95 per cent of the cases. Early lesions are curable in more than 80 per cent of cases by a limited operation or by radiotherapy, with little impairment of the voice, and finally many lesions too advanced for laryngofissure and formerly requiring total laryngectomy are now curable as a result of recent advances in radiotherapy, with restoration of voice to a normal or nearly normal state. Here, then, is a combination of favorable factors related to early diagnosis and effective treatment which render this disease one of the most hopeful of all the major forms of cancer. The purpose of this report is

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