Avoiding Surgery for HPV Throat Cancer May Be Possible for More Patients Learn how HPV-related head and neck cancer can be treated with a sharply reduced radiation dose to prevent side effects, ...

Radiation therapy side effects include general symptoms like fatigue ... with mouth sores that occur with head and neck ...

Recent and ongoing approaches to the management of radiation-induced mucositis are ... and the AD film was associated with no toxic side effects. Superficial infection has long been thought ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by transoral robotic surgery (NECTORS) and neck dissection led to better survival outcomes ...

Side effects include radiation damage to healthy tissue. Within a few days of starting treatment ... For most types of treatment, such as for head and neck cancers, the risk is low, while in a few, ...

Often chemotherapy drugs are given before or during radiation to improve the effectiveness of care ... For example, MSK’s medical oncologists sometimes advise against chemotherapy for people with head ...