Coffee Might Guard Against Head, Neck Cancers
Large analysis found regular drinkers were 39% less likely to get these malignancies Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
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New Research On Head And Neck Cancer From Saitama Medical University
A new study, ‘18F-FDG versus 11C-choline PET/CT for the imaging of advanced head and neck cancer after combined intra-arterial chemotherapy and radiotherapy: the time period during which PET/CT can reliably detect non-recurrence,’ is now available. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
Molecular Imaging Allows Individualized ‘Dose Painting’ For Head And Neck Cancers
According to research revealed at SNM’s 57th Annual Meeting, a multi-tracer molecular imaging technique using positron emission tomography (PET) provides detailed information about the physiological processes of cancerous tumors-and could one day help radiation oncologists treat head and neck cancers with precision external- beam radiation therapy and improve the [...]
U-M Study Achieves Reduced Side Effects In Head And Neck Cancer Treatment
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have applied advanced radiation techniques for head and neck cancer to avoid treating critical structures that affect swallowing and eating. A new study shows these principles and techniques treated the cancer effectively while greatly reducing long-term swallowing complications. Source: General [...]
Smoking During Radiation Therapy For Head And Neck Cancers Linked To Poorer Outcomes
Smokers who don’t quit before radiation therapy for throat, mouth and other head and neck cancers fair significantly worse than those who do, research from the UC Davis Cancer Center has found. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
Scientists At Southern Illinois University Publish New Data On Head And Neck Cancer
According to recent research from the United States, Of review Chemoradiation has become a common approach in the treatment of advanced head and neck cancer. Its effectiveness in eradicating associated nodal metastases has resulted in modifications in the traditional paradigms for managing this aspect. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided [...]
Research Results From Institute For Molecular Medicine Update Knowledge Of Head And Neck Cancer
Researchers detail in ‘Targeted chemotherapy for head and neck cancer with a chimeric oncolytic adenovirus coding for bifunctional suicide protein FCU1,’ new data in head and neck cancer. According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, Transfer of prodrug activation systems into tumors by using [...]
New Findings From Mayo Clinic, Department Of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery In The Area Of Laryngeal Cancer Therapy Described
A report, ‘Transoral laser microsurgery for early laryngeal cancer,’ is newly published data in Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy. The decision to treat patients suffering from glottic cancer with either radiotherapy or surgery is both complex and controversial. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
Research Addresses Side Effects Of Head, Neck Cancer Treatment
Spencer Heyer avoids eating hamburgers and grainy bread. Other than that, he pretty much eats everything else he wants. Anything but something hard, like hard meat, the Wilmington resident said. That’s no small thing for Heyer, 74, who underwent treatment five years ago after discovering a lump on the [...]
Studies Conducted At Magna Graecia University On Head And Neck Cancer Therapy Recently Published
Investigators publish new data in the report ‘Multiple head and neck tumours and their genetic relationship.’ Second primary tumours represent one of the major causes of failure in the treatment of head and neck cancer. Advances in early diagnosis and treatment have improved the patient’s disease-specific survival, investigators [...]