Health Condition 1: C029- Malignant neoplasm of tongue, unspecified
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Post glossectomy patients undergoing speech and swallow therapy: Speech intelligibility and articulatory skills for individual phonemes, words, short sentences and swallowing will be as
Sponsors
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with biopsy showing squamous cell carcinoma of tongue belonging to cT1 â?? 4a, N0 â?? 3, M0 receiving glossectomy as primary treatment, with or without flap reconstruction, belonging to both genders and age groups between 18 and 70 yrs will be included.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1.Patients with advanced lesions cT4a with total tongue involvement 2.Recurrent disease 3.Prior history of surgery / chemoradiotherapy 4.Patients not willing for surgery 5.Not fit for surgery 6.Patients with distant metastasis.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To assess the effect of speech and swallow therapy on quality of life and speech intelligibility in patients undergoing wide local excision for squamous cell carcinoma of tongue with or without flap reconstruction.Timepoint: 15 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| NilTimepoint: Nil | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr Pradipta Kumar Parida
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar
Outcome results
None listed