Whether patients with early-stage oral cancers should be treated with elective neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery or with therapeutic neck dissection after nodal relapse has been a ...

Which patients is this strategy targeting? The inclusion was limited to stage I patients, presentations no longer considered locally advanced. Matted nodes were excluded explicitly, and the high ...

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Is it necessary to perform a neck dissection on all patients with advanced head and neck cancer? The authors performed a randomized trial in 564 patients recruited from 37 centers in the United ...

Head and neck cancer patients may no longer have to undergo invasive post-treatment surgery to remove remaining cancer cells, as research shows that innovative scanning-led surveillance can help ...

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 ...

What Are the Different Types of Oral Cancer Surgery? Oral cancer surgery refers to a group of procedures with different jobs: removing cancer, rebuilding areas affected by treatment, or restoring key ...