LARYNGEAL CARCINOMA IN FEMALES

Between 1950 and 1992, 96 women with squamous cell carcinoma of the la rynx were diagnosed and treated in the Departments of Otolaryngology a nd Oncology at Beilinson Medical Center, Israel, and Long Island Colle ge Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, Fifty-seven female patients (59%) had glottic carcinoma, 72% of them in stage I, Thirty-eight had supraglot tic carcinoma, 68% of them in stages II and III, One patient had stage I subglottic carcinoma, Treatment varied between radiotherapy, surger y, or combined surgery,vith radiation and/or chemotherapy. The 5-year survival rate was 87%, Although most of the patients had glottic carci noma in stage I, there was also a high percentage with supraglottic ca rcinoma, most in advanced stages and with metastases to other regions, The prognosis is not different from that in men, Smoking is an import ant factor in glottic carcinoma, but not as important as in males.