PMID- 37642204 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230925 LR - 20230926 IS - 1097-0347 (Electronic) IS - 1043-3074 (Linking) VI - 45 IP - 10 DP - 2023 Oct TI - The impact of undergoing surgical margin evaluation during endoscopic surgery for early-stage laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. PG - 2680-2689 LID - 10.1002/hed.27493 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: The impact of evaluating versus not evaluating surgical margins for early-stage laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) has not been evaluated. METHODS: Overall survival was compared between patients who underwent endoscopic surgery for cT1-2, N0, M0 LSCC and had surgical margins evaluated versus not evaluated versus unevaluable in the National Cancer Database (2010-2019) using multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards analyses. RESULTS: 7597 patients met study eligibility criteria. 4123 (54.3%) patients underwent margin evaluation, 1631 (21.5%) did not undergo margin evaluation, and 1843 (24.3%) had unevaluable margins. Patients undergoing margin evaluation had better overall survival than patients who did not undergo margin evaluation (HR: 0.88, 95% CI: 0.78-1.00, p = 0.044) and patients with unevaluable margins (HR: 0.88, 95% CI: 0.78-0.98, p = 0.021). Patients undergoing margin evaluation received significantly less adjuvant radiation. CONCLUSIONS: Surgical margin evaluation is an important prognostic factor for patients receiving endoscopic surgery for early-stage LSCC and should be conducted whenever possible. CI - (c) 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Gilja, Shivee AU - Gilja S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5574-8620 AD - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA. FAU - Kumar, Arvind AU - Kumar A AD - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA. FAU - Vasan, Vikram AU - Vasan V AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2754-4107 AD - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA. FAU - Roof, Scott A AU - Roof SA AD - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA. FAU - Genden, Eric M AU - Genden EM AD - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA. FAU - Kirke, Diana N AU - Kirke DN AD - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230829 PL - United States TA - Head Neck JT - Head & neck JID - 8902541 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Margins of Excision MH - Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck MH - Endoscopy MH - Databases, Factual MH - *Head and Neck Neoplasms OTO - NOTNLM OT - LSCC OT - endoscopic surgery OT - laryngeal cancer OT - surgical margin evaluation OT - surgical margin status EDAT- 2023/08/29 12:44 MHDA- 2023/09/25 06:42 CRDT- 2023/08/29 07:03 PHST- 2023/07/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/05/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/08/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/25 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/08/29 12:44 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/08/29 07:03 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/hed.27493 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Head Neck. 2023 Oct;45(10):2680-2689. doi: 10.1002/hed.27493. Epub 2023 Aug 29.