Abstract

Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are used alone or in combination in the management of head and neck cancers. Over the years, management modalities which offer an improved local and lymphatic control and longer survival with lower morbidity and a higher quality of life have been investigated. This search has enabled the development of several management modalities according to the characteristics, localization and stage of the disease as well as the patient characteristics. In this article, we reviewed transoral laser microsurgery, and transoral robotic surgery, which are accepted as minimally invasive surgical methods in the management of larynx and oropharynx cancers in terms of advantages, disadvantages and success rate compared to open surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.