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Transoral Robotic Surgery or Standard Surgery in Treating Patients With Benign or Malignant Tumors of the Larynx and Pharynx
NCT00918762 · Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute · Updated 9 May 2014
- What is being tested
- assessment of therapy complications; diagnostic endoscopic surgery; quality-of-life assessment; therapeutic conventional surgery; therapeutic endoscopic surgery; transoral robotic surgery; video-assisted surgery
- For
- Head and Neck Cancer; Perioperative/Postoperative Complications; Precancerous Condition
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. Phase 1.
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years and older. About 6 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- United States
- When
- Starts or started May 2009, ends Oct 2010. Registered 11 June 2009.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
RATIONALE: Transoral robotic surgery may make it easier to find and remove benign or malignant tumors of the larynx and pharynx and cause less damage to normal tissue. It is not yet known whether transoral robotic surgery is more effective than standard surgery in diagnosing and treating larynx and pharynx tumors. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying how well transoral robotic surgery works compared with standard surgery in treating patients with benign or malignant tumors of the larynx or pharynx.
Sites
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteDetroit, Michigan, United States