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Friday, April 12, 2024

Dr Itzhak Brook Keynote address. “ Back to Life” 2nd Annual Head and Neck Cancer Patient & Caregiver Symposium at Keck Medicine University of California. April 6, 2024.

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  Dr. Itzhak Brook Keynote address. “Back to Life”  after laryngectomy 2nd Annual Head and Neck Cancer Patient & Caregiver Symposium at ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

How wearing a hearing aid can improve speech

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  Hearing loss may make individuals perceive that their voice is weaker than it actually is. It may contribute to social isolation and make ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Decisional Conflict in Patients with Advanced Laryngeal Carcinoma

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Heirman and colleagues from the Department of Head-and-Neck Oncology and Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, studied the decis...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

A poem by Anne Pitkin about life challenges of Laryngectomee published in JAMA in the Healing and Poetry Section January 23, 2024

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  You can do everything you did before except swim. If you swim, water will flood your lungs     through the hole in your neck. I can buzz L...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Artificial Intelligence helping laryngectomees to speak again

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 The developments in artificial intelligence led to developments that can help laryngectomees use new ways by which they can speak again. Mo...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Dysautonomia in oral and head and neck cancer patients

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Dysautonomia is an umbrella term referring to a group of several medical conditions that cause a malfunction of the Autonomic Nervous System...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Patients requiring multiple dilations are at increased risk of persistent dysphagia long-term.

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  Following total laryngectomy (TL) or laryngopharyngectomy (TLP), patients may develop strictures that Head Neck require multiple dilations...
Monday, November 6, 2023

Quality of Life, Dysphagia, Voice Problems, Depression, and Anxiety after Laryngectomy

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  Wulff and colleagues from Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark.; determine health-related quality of life (HRQoL), including voice ...
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...