[Specialities of female patients with laryngeal carcinoma (author's transl)]

Among 1231 patients with laryngeal carcinoma were 48 women. These were compared with male patients showing laryngeal carcinoma with respect to nine various groups of criteria. There was no significant difference in: Histological Diagnosis, the first symptom, the second tumor. In opposition to male patients with laryngeal carcinoma the number of women's carcinoma has not increased since 1940. Women are relatively more frequently taken ill at a younger age, they show a longer anamnese and relatively more frequently suffer from an inner carcinoma than men. Although the female patients with laryngeal carcinoma were attended relatively frequently at a rather favourable stage, we were not able to notice any better results after the five years' survival in comparison with the male patients.