Table 5.
Impact on swallowing function in the LE + chRT/RT and LCS + chRT/RT groups
| Swallowing | LE + chRT/RT |
Total | LCS + chRT/RT |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardly–strong | Substantial–strong | Hardly–strong | Substantia–strong | |||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Solid food | 16 (61) | 7 (27) | 26 (100) | 15 (58) | 11 (42) | 26 (100) |
| Soft food | 5 (19) | 0 (0) | 26 (100) | 8 (31) | 1 (4) | 26 (100) |
| Liquid food | 1 (4) | 1 (4) | 26 (100) | 10 (38) | 1 (4) | 26 (100) |
| Granular food | 10 (43) | 4 (17) | 23 (100) | 9 (39) | 4 (17) | 23 (100) |
| Reduced gliding ability | 10 (50) | 6 (30) | 20 (100) | 14 (70) | 8 (40) | 20 (100) |
| Swallowing residuals | 7 (28) | 0 (0) | 25 (100) | 17 (71) | 4 (17) | 24 (100) |
| Pain | 6 (22) | 0 (0) | 27 (100) | 9 (35) | 0 (0) | 26 (100) |
| Avoid eating in society | 11 (44) | 7 (28) | 25 (100) | 7 (27) | 5 (19) | 26 (100) |
| Burning at eating | 6 (22) | 0 (0) | 27 (100) | 7 (29) | 4 (17) | 24 (100) |
Percentages refer to the patients who gave responses about the side effects. Specification ‘hardly–strong’ includes all answers made by the patients with ‘hardly’, ‘little’, ‘substantial’ or ‘strong’. LE + chRT/RT = laryngectomy + radiochemo-/radiotherapy, LCS + chRT/RT = larynx conservation surgery + radiochemo-/radiotherapy.