[The clinical curative strategies of hypopharyngeal carcinoma]

Hypopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the common tumor of head and neck which is considered to be with doubtful prognosis. The clinical symptoms are not obvious in the early stage because of the anatomical structure. Once patients feel uncomfortable, it would be late for treatment. And most of them are with lymph node metastasis because it's rich of lymphatic system, which makes the treatment more difficult. Comprehensive Treatment which include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, plays an important role on hypopharyngeal carcinoma. As the progress of clinical medicine and the request on life quality, function-preserving treatment is becoming the most important part for the patients. In this paper, we summarize the clinical curative effect of different treatments for hypopharyngeal carcinoma.