Abstract
Oropharyngeal cancers and their treatment can exquisitely affect a patient's quality of life and functional outcome. Transoral robotic surgery offers a minimally invasive surgical approach that mitigates injury from traditional open surgical approaches and offers a treatment more likely to have short-term side effects compared with nonsurgical treatment. Feeding tube dependence, oral intake, and swallowing questionnaires, in addition to swallowing evaluations provide a snapshot of a patient's current swallowing function. Investigation of patient-reported quality-of-life outcomes allows for understanding of their symptomatology and the comparison of different treatment strategies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1117-1129 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Functional outcomes
- PROMs
- Quality of life
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Otorhinolaryngology