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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Loneliness and quality of life in head and neck cancer patients

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  Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) are at risk of loneliness because of the effects of the disease and its treatment on important so...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Tobacco Cessation Following Laryngeal Cancer Diagnosis Predicts Response to Treatment and Laryngectomy-Free Survival

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Krutz and colleagues from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center s tudied the effect of tobacco cessation following laryngealcanc...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Who is the best surgeon and what is the best place to have laryngectomy?

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  Saraswathula   from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues evaluated therelationship between surgeon volume and operativ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Fatal Tracheoesophageal Puncture Leakage Associated With Lenvatinib.

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Fatal tracheoesophageal puncture leakage associated with Lenvatinib treatment was reported by Salvatori S. and Tanvetyanon   T.   from Moffi...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Quality of sexual life after total laryngectomy for cancer.

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 Babin and colleagues from the Department of Otolaryngology of the University of Caen France, reviewed 24 studies that evaluated sexual li...
Monday, June 12, 2023

RESOURCES FOR LARYNGECTOMEES By Itzhak Brook MD , M Sc,

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  •        The Laryngectomee Guide. Paperback and Kindle at  http://goo.gl/z8RxEt       Free download at https://www.entnet.org/laryngectome...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Pravastatin antifibrotic efficacy in reversing radiation-induced fibrosis after radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

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  A prospective stud y done by Celine Bourgier and colleagues from Université de Montpellier, France; .showed that pravastatin (a statin) is...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Hyperventilation in neck breathers including laryngectomees.

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 Hyperventilation can occur in neck breathers including laryngectomees. Hyperventilation reduces the level of carbon dioxide in the blood. I...
Monday, November 7, 2022

First total laryngectomy by Theodor Billroth 150 years ago.

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  On December 31, 1873, in the Vienna surgery clinic, the German surgeon Theodor Billroth managed what no previous surgeon had been able to:...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Comparison of anxiety and depressive of head and neck cancer patients before and during the 2019 coronavirus pandemic.

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  Jiani Liu and colleagues from   Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China,   studied the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic o n the anxiety and d...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

"The 5th Edition of the Laryngectomee Guide Expanded Edition is available.

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The 5th Edition of the Laryngectomee Guide Expanded Edition is available now. The 325 pages Expanded Guide is an updated and revised edition...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Atorvastatin is associated with reduced cisplatin-induced hearing loss in head and neck cancer petients

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Cisplatin is widely used to treat cancers. It is the most ototoxic drug in clinical use, resulting in permanent hearing loss in approximatel...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Correction of carotid artery stenosis by stent placement ameliorated paroxysmal hypertension after radiation treatment of hypopharyngeal carcinoma:

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  Paroxysmal hypertension can be associated with failure of the carotid artery baroreceptors due to past exposure to radiation treatment. A ...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Tracheitis in a laryngectomee due to Gram-negative bacteria

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  Laryngectomees run the risk of developing respiratory tract infections. A laryngectomee who developed trachitis is presented Brook to illu...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Getting infected with both COVID-19 and influenza viruses

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  Co-infection of COVID-19 with other respiratory pathogens w hich may complicate the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of COVID-19 emer...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Discordant in Detection of COVID-19 in the Nasopharynx Versus Trachea for Patients With Tracheostomies

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Patients with tracheostomies have an anatomically altered connection between their upper and lower airways that could impact SARS-CoV-2 test...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Quality of Life, Dysphagia, Voice Problems, Depression, and Anxiety After Total Laryngectomy

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  Wulff and colleagues of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark,  dete...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Risk of aspiration when Provox Life FreeHands Flexivoice HME is not inserted correctly

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 I would like to highlight a potentially serious problem that occurred to me when I used  the new Life HME filter. I placed it INCORRECTLY w...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Hospitalization and mortality among 1216 people with total laryngectomy in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  People with total laryngectomy (PTL) have an altered anatomy for breathing and speaking. The presence of a neck stoma poses an additional ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Dr Brook interview “Physician’s personal challenges as a head and neck cancer patient and laryngectomee”. Brazilian Academy of speech and Voice. 2021

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Dr Brook interview by Dr. Rui Imamura and Dr. Adriana Hachiya about “Physician’s personal challenges as a head and neck cancer patient and l...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Safety of celebrating the spring holidays with family and Friends for head and neck cancer patients.

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  The upcoming spring holidays (Easter, Passover and Ramadan) creates challenges for those who are looking forward to celebrating them in pe...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Potential devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer

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  New data from the United Kingdom reveals potential devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic on head and neck cancer patients.  At the peak...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Laryngectomees’ challenges coping with COVID – 19 Pandemic as vaccines are available.

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Laryngectomees are more susceptible to some respiratory infections because the air they inhale is not filtered by passing through their nose...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Cancer Care During the COVID 19 Pandemic

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  Dr Brook's  Letter to the Editor  published  in the New York Times  has an important message to all cancer survivors: The prolonged CO...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Guidelines by the European Head & Neck Society, European Society for Medical Oncology, and the European Society for Radiology and Oncology.

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This EHNS-ESMO-ESTRO Clinical Practice Guideline provides key recommendations for managing Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, laryn...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Increased risk of serious illnesses including advanced stage cancer due to COVID -19 pandemic

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  The prolonged COVID-19 world wide pandemic led to an increase in medical problems due to other etiologies. Medical providers are facing gr...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Oral Intubation Attempts in Patients with a Laryngectomy: A Significant Safety Threat.

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Brenner and colleagues presented national data from the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the American Head and Nec...
Friday, September 11, 2020

COVID 19 infection in laryngectomees reported in Italy and Scotland

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  Three studies from Italy and Scotland reported seven laryngectomees who   developed COVID -19 infection. Two acquired the infection while...