Surgical Treatment of Elderly Patients with Laryngeal / Hypopharyngeal Cancer

Japan is facing a super-aging society. As of October 2022, 29% of the population was ≥65 years of age, and 15.5% was ≥75 years of age, and this trend is expected to continue. With this demographic shift, opportunities to treat elderly patients (age : ≥75 years) with head and neck cancer have increased. Cancer registry data have revealed an increase in the number of elderly laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers, and there is a need to establish safe and effective treatments for these elderly patients.