SHREVEPORT, La. - A new landmark study published in The Lancet is changing how doctors treat certain head and neck cancers.

Intraoral photobiomodulation therapy reduced severe oral mucositis and other adverse effects of radiation therapy in patients with HNC.

Painful Hands and Feet After Cancer Treatment: Inflammation Affecting the Mind-Body Connection In recent years, head and neck radiation oncology has seen a pronounced shift away from treatment with ...

Sense of smell in patients with head and neck cancer began to deteriorate at a radiation dose of 22 Gy and increased in a ...

Role of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Pathway–Targeted Therapy in Patients With Recurrent and/or Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Patients with locally recurrent head and ...

Oct. 1 --Ten years after radiation treatment for head and neck cancer, some patients may develop problems speaking and swallowing, a new study finds. These problems are related to radiation damage to ...

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 ...

Dysphagia — trouble swallowing — is one of the most common side effects of radiation for head and neck cancer and can be so bad that patients require a permanent gastrostomy tube for feeding. A team ...

Head and neck cancer is a broad term for several types of cancers that include the mouth (oral cavity), throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx), sinuses and nose cavity, and salivary glands. Head and ...

Researchers are able to use the radiosensitivity index within a mathematical framework to select the optimum radiotherapy dose for each patient based on their individual tumor biology, outlines a new ...