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 ...

Among the different strategies employed to control mucositis/stomatitis are anti-inflammatory agents, coating agents, antimicrobial therapy, cytokine therapy, and local and systemic analgesics, as ...

Head and neck cancer is best managed in a multidisciplinary setting. Surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and, more recently, biologic therapy are often employed in various combinations in an ...

Machine Learning to Predict Mortality in Older Patients With Cancer: Development and External Validation of the Geriatric Cancer Scoring System Using Two Large French Cohorts Patients had squamous ...

Administration of radiotherapy to patients with head and neck cancer often causes damage to the parotid glands, resulting in a marked decrease in saliva production, and associated discomfort.

Across Japan, more than 500 patients with head and neck cancers have been treated using the technology so far, and the numbers of patients are increasing each year. Traditional radiotherapy uses ...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) also known as stereotactic ablative ... Because of its extreme precision, the CyberKnife system does not require invasive head or body frames to stabilize patient ...