GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Some patients with head and neck cancer can be safely spared the risk and expense of surgery by undergoing a CT scan to predict whether the disease is in check after radiation ...
Some accompanying symptoms should never be ignored. “Symptoms like hoarseness of voice, swallowing difficulties, ear pain, ...
Predictive biomarkers in a phase II trial of weekly carboplatin (CBDCA), paclitaxel (P), and cetuximab (C) induction and chemoradiation (CRT) in patients (pts) with resectable stage III/IVa,b head and ...
For patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, utilizing fluorodeoxyglucose-(FDG)-PET/CT imaging to assess their response to chemoradiation significantly increases the accuracy in ...
When a patient with head and neck cancer has surgery to remove it, they often need reconstructive surgery in the form of a “free flap”, which is skin and tissue taken from a different part of the body ...