A newly approved National Cancer Institute-funded clinical trial aims to improve survival for head and neck cancer patients ...

Oral stents have emerged as a valuable adjunct in the radiotherapy of head and neck cancer, allowing clinicians to displace and immobilise non-target tissues, thereby reducing radiation exposure to ...

A multi-disciplinary task force convened by the American Society for Radiation Oncology has issued new guidelines for radiation therapy for HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) ...

After being diagnosed with Stage 3 head and neck cancer, St. John resident David Berwanger faced a grueling treatment regimen that included chemotherapy and radiation. The 60-year-old husband and ...

MSK radiation oncologist Dr. Nancy Lee helped design the clinical trial showing that immunotherapy given around surgery could reduce recurrence of some head and neck cancers. A phase 3 clinical trial ...

Sense of smell in patients with head and neck cancer began to deteriorate at a radiation dose of 22 Gy and increased in a dose-related fashion, a small prospective study showed. Fewer than 20% of the ...