Treatment results of carcinoma in situ of the glottic larynx: 61 patients treated with radiotherapy.

Objectives: To review the Notre-Dame Hospital experience in the treatment of carcinoma in situ of the glottis by radiotherapy and to evaluate the different factors affecting local control and survival.

Methods: Between January 1990 and June 2002, 61 patients presenting with carcinoma in situ of the glottis were treated with curative intent radiotherapy. No patients received either surgery or chemotherapy in the initial treatment of their cancer.

Neck dissection following concurrent chemoradiation for advanced head and neck carcinoma: pathologic findings and complications.

Objective: To assess the rate of pathologic residual neck disease and complication rates following selective neck dissection in patients with advanced head and neck carcinoma after concurrent chemotherapy (CT) and radiation therapy (RT).

Patients And Methods: Two hundred sixty-four patients with advanced-stage head and neck carcinoma underwent concurrent CT and RT from 1998 to 2004 at Notre-Dame Hospital. We describe the outcome of 32 of these patients who underwent neck dissections at our institution.