Cesare Piazza,Alberto Paderno,Marco Ravanelli et al.
Cesare Piazza et al.
Pre-treatment clinical and radiological evaluations represent a key step in the proper management of hypopharyngeal carcinoma. First, office-based endoscopy allows the assessment of superficial tumor extension, signs of laryngeal infiltrati...
Hans E Eckel,Patrick J Bradley
Hans E Eckel
Patients with hypopharyngeal cancer are difficult to treat because they typically present with advanced disease, poor general health status and severe nutritional problems. Currently, treatment options for previously untreated and newly dia...
Patrick J Bradley
Patrick J Bradley
Early throat symptoms are common and a diagnosis of hypopharyngeal cancer rare; therefore, confirming or excluding a serious diagnosis is missed or overlooked by both the patient and the practitioner - however, symptoms such as throat clear...
Patrick J Bradley
Patrick J Bradley
Hypopharyngeal cancer is uncommon in the developed world; it is mostly diagnosed in men who smoke tobacco and consume excessive alcohol and uncommon in women. However, recent trends in the developed world show that there has been an annual ...
Systemic Therapy, Palliation and Supportive Care of Patients with Hypopharyngeal Cancer [0.03%]
下咽癌的系统治疗、姑息和辅助护理
Patrick J Bradley,Thorsten Füreder,Hans E Eckel
Patrick J Bradley
Hypopharyngeal cancer patients have a very poor prognosis and limited therapeutic options. Seventy to eighty per cent of all hypopharyngeal cancer patients will require palliative and/or end-of-life care for incurable end-stage disease duri...
William I Wei,Jimmy Yu Wai Chan
William I Wei
It is not uncommon for patients with hypopharyngeal cancer to present at an advanced stage of disease. Surgical treatment provides a cure for the tumour with immediate relief from obstruction to the airway and the swallowing passage. Carefu...
Hans E Eckel,Patrick J Bradley
Hans E Eckel
Patients with hypopharyngeal cancers frequently present at advanced stage and in poor general health status. Their natural history is characterised by diffuse local primary disease, mucosal and submucosal spread, early cervical nodal metast...
Jeroen Meulemans,Pierre Delaere,Vincent Vander Poorten
Jeroen Meulemans
There has been a general shift in the treatment of hypopharyngeal cancer from open surgical techniques (either radical or partial "organ" preserving) toward non-surgi cal "organ preserving" strategies (radiotherapy [RT] or chemoradiotherapy...
Salvage Treatment Options after Failed Primary Treatment of Hypopharyngeal Cancer [0.03%]
下咽癌初始治疗失败后的挽救治疗选项
Ricard Simo,Aleix Rovira,William Townley
Ricard Simo
Recurrent hypopharyngeal cancer (rHPC) is a high-risk fatal disease associated with poor prognosis and high risk of complications in patients who are suitable to undergo salvage treatment. The treatment of such patients should be managed by...
Hans E Eckel,Patrick J Bradley
Hans E Eckel
Recent advances in minimal access surgery have shown promise in the treatment of limited hypopharyngeal lesions. In spite of their functionally excellent results in individual patients, it currently remains unlikely that these approaches wi...