Patient Concerns Inventory for head and neck cancer: Brazilian cultural adaptation.

Objective:: The purpose of this study was to translate, culturally validate and evaluate the Patients Concerns Inventory - Head and Neck (PCI-H&N) in a consecutive series of Brazilian patients.

Method:: This study included adult patients treated for upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancer. The translation and cultural adaptation of the PCI-H&N followed internationally accepted guidelines and included a pretest sample of patients that completed the first Brazilian Portuguese version of the PCI.

Vocal handicap and quality of life after treatment of advanced squamous carcinoma of the larynx and/or hypopharynx.

Objective/hypothesis: To evaluate and correlate voice-specific quality of life (QOL) and health-related QOL (HR-QOL) after treatment for advanced cancer of the larynx and/or hypopharynx.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Patients submitted to partial laryngectomy (PL), salvage PL (sPL), concomitant radiotherapy and chemotherapy (RT+Chemo), total laryngectomy (TL), salvage TL (sTL), total pharyngolaryngectomy (TP) and salvage total pharyngolaryngectomy (sTP).