喉和喉咽具有呼吸、吞咽和发音的重要功能。正因如此,在过去的1个世纪里治疗喉癌、喉咽癌的临床研究受到高度重视。手术技术的进步使部分病例免于遭受喉全切除之苦。过去三十年间,新的放疗手段取得了更为理想的局部控制率,而化疗也成为治愈某些肿瘤不可或缺的手段(图1)。 Throat and hypopharynx have important functions of breathing, swallowing and pronunciation. Because of this, in the past century to treat laryngeal cancer, hypopharyngeal cancer clinical research has received great attention. Advances in surgery have saved some cases of total laryngectomy. In the past three decades, new radiotherapy has achieved a much better local control rate, and chemotherapy has become an indispensable means of healing certain cancers (Figure 1).