[Progression of larynx and hypopharynx cancer in the last ten years].

Epidemiological analysis of patients with the larynx and hypopharynx cancer, who were treated in the Department of Otolaryngology in Bialystok from 1999 to 2004 was performed. The following aspect were assessed: (1) number of patients, (2) sex, (3) profession and place of living, (4) primary site of the tumour, (5) clinical advancement stage of the disease. The study was of 676 patients. The majority--92.2%--were males but an increase in number of female patients was found. The most common site of the primary tumour was the supraglottic region (56.9%). The analysis showed that the numbers of patients with T3/T4 clinical advancement stage of the tumour was larger (64.9%).