INTRODUCTION: Delay in the diagnosis of cancers of the larynx affects the prognosis and often requires very mutilating surgery. AIM: To report the oncologic and functional outcomes of surgery for laryngeal cancers to Hôpital Principal de Dakar in Senegal. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a single-center retrospective study carried out from January 2009 to December 2014 in the ENT and head and neck surgery department including adult patients treated for curative surgery. RESULTS: Fifty patients were treated for laryngeal cancer. Thirty-seven of them underwent a laryngectomy. Lesions classified as cT2 represented 14%, and 16% were classified as cT1. Squamous cell carcinomas represented more than 97% of cases (36/37). Radiotherapy had completed the surgery in only 11 cases with an average delay of 2.75 months. Functionally, swallowing disorders were found in two patients with two cases of pharyngo-esophageal stenosis. On the carcinologic level, six patients presented a progression while four had tumor or lymph node recurrence. One patient showed lung metastasis. Overall survival at 7 years was 33%. CONCLUSION: The functional damage in laryngeal cancer surgery is significant and on the carcinologic level the results, although satisfactory, can be improved with a better availability of adjuvant treatments.