Vocal fundamental frequency measures as a reflection of tumor response to chemotherapy in patients with advanced laryngeal cancer

Journal of Voice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-39

  Orlikoff, Robert F ^a,b   Kraus, Dennis H ^a   Harrison, Louis B ^b   Ho, Margaret L ^a   Gartner, Carolyn J ^a  

^a Head and Neck Service   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic voice measure; Carcinoma; Larynx; Phonation; Pitch perturbation; Vocal fundamental frequency

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; PHONATION; VOICE;

EID: 0030951742     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(97)80021-5     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Ensley J, Jacobs JR, Weaver A, et al. Correlation between response to cisplatinum-combination chemotherapy and subsequent radiotherapy in previously untreated patients with advanced squamous cell cancers of the head and neck. Cancer 1984;54:811-4.
2. Bosl GJ, Strong EW, Harrison LB, Pfister DG. Chemotherapy and the management of locally advanced squamous carcinoma of the head and neck: role in larynx preservation. In: Devita VT, Hellman S, Rosenberg SA, eds. Important advances in oncology. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1991:191-203.
3. Pfister DG, Strong EW, Harrison LB, et al. Larynx preservation with combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy in advanced but resectable head and neck cancer. J Clin Oncol 1991;9:850-9.
4. Pfister DG, Harrison LB, Strong EW, Bosl GJ. Current status of larynx preservation with multimodality therapy. Oncol 1992;6:33-8.
5. Hecker MHL, Kreul EJ. Descriptions of the speech of patients with cancer of the vocal folds. 1. Measures of fundamental frequency. J Acoust Soc Am 1971;49:1275-82.
6. Koike Y. Application of some acoustic measures for the evaluation of laryngeal dysfunction. Studio Phonol 1973;7: 17-23.
7. Murry T. Speaking fundamental frequency characteristics associated with voice pathologies. J Speech Hear Dis 1978; 43:374-9.
8. Murry T, Doherty ET. Selected acoustic characteristics of pathologic and normal speakers. J Speech Hear Res 1980; 23:361-9.
9. Ludlow CL, Bassich CJ, Connor NP, et al. The validity of using phonatory jitter and shimmer to detect laryngeal pathology. In: Baer T, Sasaki CT, Harris KS, eds. Laryngeal function in phonation and respiration. San Diego: College-Hill, 1985:492-508.
10. Lieberman P. Some acoustic measures of the fundamental periodicity of normal and pathologic larynges. J Acoust Soc Am 1963;35:344-53.
11. Koike Y, Takahashi H, Calcaterra TC. Acoustic measures for detecting laryngeal pathology. Acta Otolaryngol 1977; 84:105-17.
12. Ludlow C, Coulter D, Gentges F. The differential sensitivity of frequency perturbation to laryngeal neoplasms and neuropathologies. In: Bless DM, Abbs JH, eds. Vocal fold physiology: Contemporary research and clinical issues. San Diego: College-Hill, 1983:381-92.
13. Fairbanks O. Voice and articulation drillbook. 2nd ed. New York: Harper, 1960.
14. Hollien H, Shipp T. Speaking fundamental frequency and chronologic age in males. J Speech Hear Res 1972;15:155-9.
15. Ramig LA, Ringel RL. Effects of physiologic aging on selected acoustic characteristics of voice. J Speech Hear Res 1983;26:22-30.
16. Orlikoff RF. The relationship of age and cardiovascular health to certain acoustic characteristics of male voices. J Speech Hear Res 1990;33:450-7.
17. Horii Y. Some statistical characteristics of voice fundamental frequency. J Speech Hear Res 1975;18:192-201.
18. Feijoo S, Hernández C. Short-term stability measures for the evaluation of vocal quality. J Speech Hear Res 1990;33: 324-34.
19. Baken RJ. Clinical measurement of speech and voice. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.
20. McNeil BJ, Weichselbaum R, Pauker SG. Speech and survival: tradeoffs between quantity and quality of life in laryngeal cancer. N Engl J Med 1981;305:982-7.