A comparison of tongue and soft palate squamous cell carcinoma treated by primary surgery in terms of survival and quality of life outcomes

Effect of swallowing training on dysphagia and depression in postoperative tongue cancer patients

“…Regarding speech and swallowing, patients who underwent 3/4 or total anterior glossectomy had poorer outcomes than those who underwent either 1/4 or 1/2 glossectomy (Brown et al, 2006). Similar results were obtained in the present study.…”

“…So long as the tissue is replaced and contraction is avoided, the detrimental effects on functional outcomes are limited. Free flaps can provide vascularized and sensitized skin cover to increase the rate of healing and avoid contraction of the remaining tissues; however, they cannot replace the complex muscular movements of the tongue and soft palate (Brown et al, 2006). Therefore, organ preservation appears to translate to functional preservation, at least in tongue cancer.…”

Patients’ perceived health status following primary surgery for oral and oropharyngeal cancer

“…As the study was conducted as a postal survey it was limited to only these two questionnaires to reduce questionnaire burden and to encourage a better response rate. The 64% response is typical of postal surveys in this cohort 3,12,25 . It is recognized for the interpretation of the findings that there are survivorship effects of drop out, adaptation and response shift.…”

“…There is increasing emphasis for the inclusion of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in the evaluation of outcome in patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer 3,14,19 . The main predictors of outcome include tumour stage and method of treatment: primary surgery, primary radiotherapy or combination therapy 21 .…”

Speech outcomes after soft palate reconstruction with the soft palate insufficiency repair procedure

“…[6][7][8][9][10][11] Although these studies provide useful information on intelligibility of speech, they do not report on acoustic and aeromechanical data related to the speech signal, which provide extra insight into the function of the soft palate during speech. 12 A previous study completed by Seikaly and colleagues 13 revealed that palatal reconstruction yielded close-to-pretreatment levels of intelligibility for most patients.…”