NCT00600223

Functional Voice and Speech Outcomes Following Surgical Voice Restorations: A Comparison of Pharyngeal Construction Approaches

Functional Voice and Speech Outcomes Following Surgical Voice Restorations: A Comparison of Pharyngeal Reconstruction Approaches

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the nature and quality of speech after removal of the voice box and all or part of the swallowing tube. The study is evaluating which type of surgery provides patients with the best speech and voice. These data will be used to help surgeons to design better ways to restore voice function after removal of the voice box. Information about disease, its treatment, quality of life, and physical and vocal function will be collected. An audio recording of vocal tasks will also be done. All of this information will be analyzed and the two different subject groups will be compared to see if there are differences.

Conditions

• Larynx Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	questionnaires and standardized, digital voice recording	Patient will be asked to complete four sets of forms. Upon completion of these forms, the study subject and the investigator will proceed to a quiet room for the standardized, digital voice recording. Recording will be made on digital audiotape using a standardized portable, digital audio recorder.

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-10-01
• Primary completion: 2010-10-01
• Completion: 2010-10-01
• First posted: 2008-01-24
• Last updated: 2010-10-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States