Effects of voice rehabilitation on health-related quality of life, communication and voice in laryngeal cancer patients treated with radiotherapy: A randomised controlled trial

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1017-1024

  Karlsson, Therese ^a   Johansson, Mia ^a   Andréll, Paulin ^b   Finizia, Caterina ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER CORE30; EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER HEAD AND NECK 35; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SWEDISH SELF EVALUATION OF COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCES AFTER LARYNGEAL CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE DISORDER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY; VOICE DISORDERS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 84930919385     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2014.995773     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bibby JR, Cotton SM, Perry A, Corry JF. Voice outcomes after radiotherapy treatment for early glottic cancer: assessment using multidimensional tools. Head Neck 2008; 30: 600-10.
2. Jacobi I, van der Molen L, Huiskens H, van Rossum MA, Hilgers FJ. Voice and speech outcomes of chemoradiation for advanced head and neck cancer: Asystematic review. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2010; 267: 1495-505.
3. Peeters A J, van Gogh CD, Goor KM, V erdonck-de Leeuw IM, Langendijk JA, Mahieu HF. Health status and voice outcome after treatment for T1a glottic carcinoma. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2004; 261: 534-40.
4. Karlsson T, Bergström L, Ward L, Finizia C. Aprospective longitudinal study of voice characteristics and quality-of-life outcomes following laryngeal cancer treatment with radiotherapy. Unpublished manuscript.
5. Hocevar-Boltezar I, Zargi M, Strojan P. Risk factors for voice quality after radiotherapy for early glottic cancer. Radiother Oncol 2009; 93: 524-9.
6. Finizia C, Bergman B, Lindstrom J. A cross-sectional validation study of self-evaluation of communication experiences after laryngeal cancer - a questionnaire for use in the voice rehabilitation of laryngeal cancer patients. Acta Oncol 1999; 38: 573-80.
7. Metcalfe CW, Lowe D, Rogers SN. What patients consider important: Temporal variations by early and late stage oral, oropharyngeal and laryngeal subsites. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 2014; 42: 641-7.
8. van Gogh CD, V erdonck-de Leeuw IM, B oon-Kamma BA, Rinkel RN, de Bruin MD, Langendijk JA, et al. The effi cacy of voice therapy in patients after treatment for early glottic carcinoma. Cancer 2006; 106: 95-105.
9. Fex S, Henriksson B. Phoniatric treatment combined with radiotherapy of laryngeal cancer for the avoidance of radiation damage. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1969; 263: 128-9.
10. Tuomi L, Bjorkner E, Finizia C. Voice outcome in patients treated for laryngeal cancer: Effi cacy of voice rehabilitation. J Voice 2014; 28: 62-8.
11. Kaplan MH, Feinstein A R. The importance of classifying initial co-morbidity in evaluating the outcome of diabetes mellitus. J Chronic Dis 1974; 27: 387-404.
12. Piccirillo J F, Feinstein AR. Clinical Symptoms and Comorbidity: Signifi cance for the Prognostic Classifi cation of Cancer. Cancer 1996; 77: 834-842.
13. Pocock SJ, Simon R. Sequential treatment assignment with balancing for prognostic factors in the controlled clinical trial. Biometrics 1975; 31: 103-15.
14. Stoicheff ML, Ciampi A, Passi JE, Fredrickson JM. The irradiated larynx and voice: Aperceptual study. J Speech Hear Res 1983; 26: 482-5.
15. Tuomi L, Andrell P, Finizia C. Effects of voice rehabilitation after radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer: Arandomized controlled study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014; 89: 964-72.
16. Osoba D, Rodrigues G, Myles J, Zee B, Pater J. Interpreting the signifi cance of changes in health-related quality-of-life scores. J Clin Oncol 1998; 16: 139-44.
17. Cocks K, King MT, Velikova G, Martyn St-James M, Fayers PM, Brown JM. Evidence-based guidelines for determination of sample size and interpretation of the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30. J Clin Oncol 2011; 29: 89-96.
18. Finizia C, Palme C, Bergman B. Alongitudinal study of the Swedish Self-Evaluation of Communication Experiences after Laryngeal Cancer questionnaire in patients treated for laryngeal cancer. Acta Oncol 2002; 41: 262-8.
19. Johansson M, Ryden A, Finizia C. Self evaluation of communication experiences after laryngeal cancer - a longitudinal questionnaire study in patients with laryngeal cancer. BMC Cancer 2008; 8: 80.
20. Tuomi L, Johansson M, Andrell P, Finizia C. Interpretation of the Swedish Self Evaluation of Communication Experiences after Laryngeal cancer (S-SECEL): Cut-off levels and minimum clinically important differences. Head Neck 2014.
21. Cohen J. Statistical power analysis for the behavioural sciences. 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Press; 1988.
22. Tuomi L, Karlsson T, Johansson M, Finizia C. H ealth-related quality of life and voice following radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer - a comparison between glottic and supraglottic tumours. Acta Oncol Epub 2014 June 10.
23. Happ M B, Roesch T, Kagan S H. Communication needs, methods, and perceived voice quality following head and neck surgery: Aliterature review. Cancer Nurs 2004; 27: 1-9.
24. Rinkel RN, V erdonck-de Leeuw IM, van den Brakel N, d e Bree R, Eerenstein SE, Aaronson N, et al. Patient-reported symptom questionnaires in laryngeal cancer: Voice, speech and swallowing. Oral Oncol 2014; 50: 759-64.
25. Bhuta T, Patrick L, Garnett JD. Perceptual evaluation of voice quality and its correlation with acoustic measurements. J Voice 2004; 18: 299-304