CTAHN leads to acute management changes in a minority of patients, with the highest diagnostic yield found in stroke and headache cases.
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 ...
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 ...
Cancers occurring in the mouth, nose, and throat are on the rise in the U.S., especially in younger people. About 60,000 new cases are diagnosed every year, with one in five cases occurring in people ...
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 ...