[Proliferative activity of laryngeal cancer and possible morphologic prognostic factors]

Altogether 70 patients with histologically verified laryngeal cancer were studied. An analysis of the data obtained showed that tumor proliferative activity expressed by a labeling index (LI) correlated, to a certain extent, with various structural and functional properties of a tumor, e. g. LI showed correlation with a degree of differentiation of squamous cell carcinoma: in a nonkeratinizing type the mean LI was 8.2, in a keratinizing type 5.5. A noticeable immune response to a tumor was observed in most of the patients. However a stable tendency (p = 0.95) to a decrease in LI in marked lymphoid infiltration was revealed in nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma only. There was no correlation between LI and a degree of vascularization. The preponderance of weak vascularization was noted in keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma. A decrease in LI in weak vascularization was also observed in this cancer type taking into account a degree of lymphoid infiltration. In clinical practice while designing a therapy one should bear in mind a variety of clinical, structural and biological features of a tumor.