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To the Editor: Forastiere and colleagues (Nov. 27 issue)¹ are to be congratulated on their important study of concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy for organ preservation in patients with advanced laryngeal cancer. However, the final sentence of their report, which states that they "believe that in most patients with laryngeal cancer, the disease can be managed without a primary surgical approach," lacks balance and may be misleading to readers. This study included a limited subgroup of patients with advanced laryngeal cancer, whose only surgical option was total laryngectomy. However, there is a large group of patients with advanced laryngeal cancer who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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