Problemy psychologiczne w rehabilitacji chorych po operacjach całkowitego usunięcia krtani

Even suspicion of cancer can cause severe stress reaction on all fields of human activity. In a group of patients with larynx cancer there is additionally a luck of possibility to communicate with loud voice. That why the medical team supposed to explain that the total resection of the larynx will not deprive the speech, and that physiological generator of voice pure tone can be replaced by esophageal voice and speech. Psychological support for patients qualified for total laryngectomy has to be applied just immediately after first diagnosis of cancer.