A clinical survey of hospitalization with radical radiotherapy for early stage glottic laryngeal cancer

We retrospectively investigated the relationship between the duration of hospitalization and the regimen of definitive radiotherapy for patients with early stage glottic laryngeal cancer in our institution during the period from 2006 to 2011. The total number of hospitalized patients who underwent radiation therapy in this period was 45 (43 men, 2 women). Twenty-one patients had been treated by accelerated hyperfractionation (AHF), 19 patients by conventional fractionation (CF), and 5 patients by accelerated fractionation (AF). Average duration of radiation therapy was 23.4, 48.5, 38.4 days respectively and average duration of hospitalization was 37.3, 57.4, and 49 days respectively. Our data suggest that the AHF method can shorten the period of hospitalization by 20 days on average compared to the CF method. (author)