Introduction:

The larynx is the most common localization of non cutaneous head and neck malignancies.

Objective:

To characterize those affected patients due to larynx malignancies.

Methods:

A descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study of 242 patients with larynx carcinoma was carried out, they were assisted in Conrado Benítez García Provincial Teaching Cancer Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January, 2013 to December, 2015.

Results:

Most of the patients were men (88.8 %), with an 8:1 ratio regarding the female sex, and mean age was of 65 years. Likewise, nicotine addiction was present in 204 patients (84.3 %) and glottic tumors were the most frequent, with 168 affected, of which 89.3% presented dysphonia as first symptom, followed in order by the increase of cervical volume as main manifestation of the supraglottis (26.6 %) and subglottis (60.0 %) cancer. The predominant stage at the moment of the diagnosis was the I (35.5 %).

Conclusions:

At the present time larynx malignancies are an important health problem for the upward tendency in the number of patients worldwide.

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