Semon Lecture: ‘Laryngectomy Practice Based on Personal Research’, Royal Society of Medicine, 5 November 2020, London, UK

• Published in: Journal of laryngology and otology Vol. 135; no. 7; p. E3
• Main Author: Fagan, J J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2021
• Subjects: Biomedical Research; Cancer therapies; Cartilage; Cutaneous Fistula - prevention & control; Developing countries; Enteral Nutrition - methods; Fistula; Health Resources; Humans; Hypothyroidism; Laryngeal cancer; Laryngeal Neoplasms - surgery; Laryngectomy - methods; Larynx; Larynx, Artificial; LDCs; Lecture; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - epidemiology; Organ Sparing Treatments; Ostomy; Otolaryngology; Patients; Pharyngeal Diseases - prevention & control; Postoperative Care - methods; Postoperative Complications - prevention & control; Prostheses; Proton Pump Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Quality of Life; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Social Class; Socioeconomic factors; South Africa; Speech; Speech, Esophageal; Surgery; Surgical Stomas; Thyroid gland; Thyroidectomy; Tracheostomy - methods; Tracheotomy; South Africa; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US
• ISSN: 0022-2151; 1748-5460; 1748-5460
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022215121001511

I wish to thank the Semon Committee for inviting me to deliver the 2020 Semon lecture. This is a very special honour, as is evidenced by the list of distinguished lecturers dating back to the inaugural lecture delivered at University College London in 1913. I am not the first South African to deliver the Semon lecture, having been preceded by my previous chairman Sean Sellars in 1993, and by Jack Gluckman in 2001, who was South African raised and educated and who subsequently became the chairman of otolaryngology in Cincinnati, USA.