Tag: Head and neck cancer

A new correspondence in Supportive Care in Cancer argues that head and neck cancer rehabilitation trials must stratify participants by ...

A prospective study of 230 laryngectomy patients shows that fat mass rebounds within eight weeks after surgery while skeletal muscle ...

The Phase II portion of the NRG-HN009 trial found that weekly cisplatin did not significantly reduce acute toxicity compared with ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of twenty observational studies finds that higher coffee consumption is associated with a 43 ...

A two-decade SEER analysis of nearly 9,500 US patients shows nasopharyngeal carcinoma incidence declining modestly while its histologic makeup shifts ...

A machine learning analysis of 1,525 SEER records finds that concurrent chemoradiotherapy is associated with roughly 30 percent better disease-specific ...

Researchers have developed a registration-consistent framework that turns routine daily cone-beam CT scans into a longitudinal measure of tumour texture ...

A phase II trial found that preoperative chemo-immunotherapy with sintilimab achieved major pathological responses in 59.1 percent of locally advanced ...

Researchers have re-engineered an acupuncture needle into a minimally invasive device that samples DNA biomarkers directly from lymph nodes for ...

A double-blind randomized trial found that probiotic lozenges containing Limosilactobacillus reuteri significantly reduced severe oral mucositis in head and neck ...

A cross-sectional study of 626 surgical head and neck cancer patients in China finds that higher nutritional knowledge and practice ...

Researchers in Taiwan mapped a 25-microRNA regulatory network driving radioresistance in head and neck cancer and used transcriptome-guided drug repurposing ...

New research shows that metadherin, enriched at the invasive front of oral squamous cell carcinoma, drives tumor invasion by selectively ...

A London quality improvement project found that starting tube feeding on the same day as head and neck flap surgery ...

Plasma-derived small extracellular vesicles from head and neck cancer patients suppress T-cell proliferation, trigger apoptosis, and rewire immune checkpoint expression ...

A new study of disease-free oropharyngeal cancer survivors shows that instrumental FEES findings and patient-reported questionnaires capture complementary, often mismatched, ...

A new scoping review of 68 studies maps the non-pharmacological interventions, from nurse-led home exercise to swallowing rehabilitation, that help ...

A circulating tumor HPV DNA blood test detected every recurrence of HPV-associated throat cancer after surgery with no false positives, ...

A seventeen-year study of 400 patients finds that failure to visualise the sentinel lymph node on preoperative imaging in head ...

An international MASCC expert panel has issued a clinical practice statement recommending barrier-forming topical agents, particularly the silicone-based gel StrataXRT, ...