8534 POSTER Voice Quality in Patients Treated With Surgery or Radiotherapy for Early Glottic Cancer – a Comparative Study

Functional outcomes of early laryngeal cancer - endoscopic laser surgery versus external beam radiotherapy: a systematic review

“…Of the small number of studies shown in table IV, Ozturk et al23 was the only paper identified that focussed on comparing long term swallowing outcomes between the two treatment modalities. This was established by several means, and concluded that ELS is more advantageous regarding swallowing function.Kujath 20 and Robertson46 using RBHOMS and MDADI respectively, found no difference between treatment modalities. Whilst the majority of methods used were validated, the Functional Outcome Swallowing Scale is an unvalidated method of swallowing assessment.Perception of swallow function was incorporated into 4 of the QoL questionnaires as outlined in table VI.…”