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Is voice rehabilitation not necessary for patients with laryngeal cancer after radiotherapy?

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Dr. Hui-Zi Li for his statistical support for the study. The work was supported by Grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81172561), the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (No. 2014CB541700), and Department of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province (No. 2015C03035).

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Huang, GJ., Yang, BB. Is voice rehabilitation not necessary for patients with laryngeal cancer after radiotherapy?. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 277, 2159–2161 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-019-05596-1

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