Abstract
Increasing incidence of oncologic diseases is a serious society-wide problem. Care for cancer patients follows general rules in part, however, each speciality in medicine has its own specifics determined by anatomy, histology, physiology as well as therapy options.
Laryngeal cancer is one the most serious oncologic diseases in otorhinolaryngology. Standard treatment options include surgical performance, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or their combination.
Approximately one third of patients undergo total laryngectomy. By removing the larynx, we save patients' lives.
On the other hand, they are deprived of basic human nature, e.i. voice communication. And so one part of their original worlds becomes definitively closed for them and the quality of their future lives is determined by adaptation to new conditions.
We hope this publication will help medical staff, medical students as well as non-medical ones understand key problems of worlds of these patients better and provide quality of life appropriate for the patients in their clinical practice, thanks to the summary of the issue as well as comments of anatomy, physiology, pathology and nursing.