Cancer of the Larynx

Abstract

SINCE Coutard¹ described a group of patients with inoperable cancer of the larynx successfully treated by radiation in the early 1930's, radiotherapy as well as surgery has been accepted as a useful means of dealing with this disease. Numerous valuable contributions have subsequently appeared in the literature. The present report deals mainly with the evaluation of therapeutic results in a group of 253 patients in whom the cancer arose on the vocal cords or had extended to involve the immediately adjacent structures — that is, endolaryngeal tumors. All cases were histologically proved. The group included patients who were registered in . . .