Psychiatric disorders in patients with benign and malignant sinonasal tumors: a prospective cross-sectional study.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and somatic symptom disorder (SSD) in patients with benign and malignant sinonasal tumors.

Materials And Methods: Pretreatment patients with sinonasal tumors were prospectively recruited on the rhinology ward of a tertiary hospital from July 2021 to March 2022. The electronic questionnaire which contains the rhinological symptom scale, the 22-item Sinonasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22) Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), and the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) was filled out by patients at admission.

Upfront surgery versus definitive radiotherapy: competing risk analyses for cancer-specific and noncancer mortality in oropharyngeal cancer.

Purpose: The optimal treatment strategy for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) is undetermined. We aim to compare the survival outcomes of OPC patients treated with upfront surgery versus definitive radiotherapy (RT).

Methods: A total of 8057 cases were retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database.