Voice Assessment after Partial Laryngectomy

Abstract

The last three decades have seen significant technological advances in voice rehabilitation of cases of cancer larynx, delivery of radiation as well as development of conservative surgical technique. This has allowed the focus to shift to organ preservation. Maintenance of quality of life and minimizing adverse effects is now considered an important therapeutic goal irrespective of the stage of disease and choice of treatment modality. organ preservation laryngeal surgery has been defined as a combination of procedures that remove a portion of larynx while maintaing the physiological functions of speech, swallowing and respiration without compromising local control and cure rates or the need for permanent