Our radiation oncologists, including Nancy Lee, have special training in caring for people with head and neck cancer. Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that involves sending high-energy beams of ...

Limiting toxicity by reducing the amount of mucosa exposed to radiation is a logical and practical way of minimizing the damage from radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancers.

The problem, says Ono, is that the neutrons used for BNCT are a relatively weak form of radiation and can’t be applied deep in the body at therapeutic levels. Head and neck cancers are usually ...

Researchers have created an ultra-fast cancer treatment that can deliver much-needed treatment in just one second.

Chemotherapy is a treatment for head and neck cancer that uses powerful drugs to attack cancer cells. Often chemotherapy drugs are given before or during radiation to improve the effectiveness of care ...

An estimated 42 million people in India suffer from thyroid problems, an autoimmune condition that has grown very common. The most frequent cause is thought to be iodine deficiency brought on by ...

Results from the Phase III NRG Oncology RTOG 0920 (NRG-RTOG 0920) trial assessing postoperative radiotherapy with or without ...

Surgical, radiation and medical oncologists in the Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck squamous cell ...

Our multidisciplinary team includes head and neck surgeons, reconstructive surgeons, dental surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, neuroradiologists and pathologists from UW Medicine ...

Missing weekly cisplatin cycles was associated with worse OS in patients with head and neck cancers, particularly for those ...

Christina Henson, MD, discussed some of the current imaging guidelines in head and neck cancer, with a focus on extranodal ...