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The August 2008 issue of ""Otolaryngologic Clinics"" addresses dynamic aspects of laryngeal cancer management and provides an overview of the complex considerations one must appreciate when managing laryngeal cancer to maximize oncologic and functional outcomes for patients. Topics include: molecular genetics, diagnosis and preoperative workup, radiologic evaluation of larynx cancer, radiotherapeutic management of laryngeal carcinoma, organ preservation, management of early-stage laryngeal malignancy, primary and salvage total laryngectomy, robotics in laryngeal surgery, and effects of laryngeal cancer on voice and swallowing.

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Dr. Tufano has served as the Charles W. Cummings MD Endowed Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 2012-2021. Dr. Tufano has served as the department's Director of the Division of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery since 2011 and its American Head and Neck Society accredited fellowship in Endocrine Surgery. He is also a past chair of the American Academy of Otolaryngology's Endocrine Surgery Committee and serves on the American Head and Neck Society's Endocrine Section Board. He has authored over 230 peer-reviewed papers, more than 40 textbook chapters related to thyroid and parathyroid diseases, and has edited two textbooks. After 21 years at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Dr. Tufano joined the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in 2021 to direct the First Physicians Group Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Endocrine Center that consists of a dedicated Thyroid and Parathyroid Center and Head and Neck Cancer Center. He is now a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Tufano was the first surgeon in the U.S.A. to perform RFA of thyroid nodules (2019).

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