Abstract
Laryngeal cancer affects approximately12,000 people in the United States each year, and nearly half of tumors present as an early-stage tumor (T1–2 N0) arising from the true vocal cords. The major risk factor for laryngeal carcinoma is tobacco use, and greater the 95 % of patients with laryngeal cancer have a history of smoking (Wydner et al. 1956). Other risk factors, like alcohol and gastroesophageal reflux disease, also may play a role in the in development of laryngeal cancers, although they rarely lead to this malignancy without a concomitant smoking history. The role of HPV in the etiology of laryngeal cancer is not clear, although HPV-positive laryngeal cancers have been reported.
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Zumsteg, Z.S., Riaz, N., Lee, N. (2014). Early Stage Larynx Cancer. In: Lee, N.Y., Riaz, N., Lu, J.J. (eds) Target Volume Delineation for Conformal and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2014_1012
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