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ReviewCancers2020

Current Role of Total Laryngectomy in the Era of Organ Preservation.

Alexandre Bozec, Dorian Culié, Gilles Poissonnet, Olivier Dassonville

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Co-Designing a Prototype Education and Training Intervention for Healthcare Professionals Working in Community Laryngectomy Care: An Experience-Based Co-Design Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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  5. Five-year outcomes of transoral robotic surgery with or without neoadjuvant chemotherapy in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a preliminary experience.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2026
    Article
  6. Laryngectomy Education and Training Resources: An Environmental Scan of Resources.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2026
    Review
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  8. Stapler-assisted total laryngectomy and hybrid primary puncture: analysis of functional results.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2025
    Article
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  10. Machine learning in personalized laryngeal cancer management: insights into clinical characteristics, therapeutic options, and survival predictions.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  13. Survival in an era of organ preservation: an update on laryngeal cancer in Ireland.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2023
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  20. Therapeutic strategies, oncologic and swallowing outcomes and their predictive factors in patients with locally advanced hypopharyngeal cancer.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandre BozecInstitut Universitaire de la Face et du Cou, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Université Côte d'Azur, 06103 Nice, France.
Dorian CuliéInstitut Universitaire de la Face et du Cou, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Université Côte d'Azur, 06103 Nice, France.
Gilles PoissonnetInstitut Universitaire de la Face et du Cou, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Université Côte d'Azur, 06103 Nice, France.
Olivier DassonvilleInstitut Universitaire de la Face et du Cou, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Université Côte d'Azur, 06103 Nice, France.
Université Côte d'Azur · FRCentre Antoine Lacassagne · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we aimed to discuss the role of total laryngectomy (TL) in the management of patients with larynx cancer (LC) in the era of organ preservation. Before the 1990s, TL followed by radiotherapy (RT) was the standard treatment for patients with locally advanced LC. Over the last 30 years, various types of larynx preservation (LP) programs associating induction or concurrent chemotherapy (CT) with RT have been developed, with the aim of treating locally advanced LC patients while preserving the larynx and its functions. Overall, more than two-thirds of patients included in a LP program will not require total laryngectomy (TL) and will preserve a functional larynx. However, despite these advances, the larynx is the only tumor site in the upper aero-digestive tract for which prognosis has not improved during recent decades. Indeed, none of these LP protocols have shown any survival advantage compared to primary radical surgery, and it appears that certain LC patients do not benefit from an LP program. This is the case for patients with T4a LC (extra-laryngeal tumor extension through the thyroid cartilage) or with poor pretreatment laryngeal function and for whom primary TL is still the preferred therapeutic option. Moreover, TL is the standard salvage therapy for patients with recurrent tumor after an LP protocol.

Indexed as

head and neck cancerlarynxorgan preservationtotal laryngectomy

Identifiers

PMID32138168
PMCPMC7139381
OpenAlexW3010178194

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