Definitive radiotherapy is the standard treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, but it often leads to significant long-term side effects, particularly from elective neck irradiation.

Patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who received the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab before, during and after standard-of-care surgery had longer event-free survival ...

Head and neck cancer symptoms vary by tumor location, often presenting as a neck lump or voice changes. Smoking and HPV are major risk factors; cessation and vaccination are crucial preventive ...

His story is raising awareness for this National Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month. It’s estimated nearly 70,000 new cases of head and neck cancer will be diagnosed this year. Stuckey celebrated ...

What is the current standard of care for patients newly diagnosed with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma? What outcomes are typically seen with this regimen? The current ...

An immunotherapy treatment has been found to ‘change the world’ for head and neck cancer patients by giving them an extra two and a half years before the disease worsens or comes back.

They discovered that the muscles they picked apart differed dramatically from the accepted anatomy of the fish’s head. Several structures that had previously been described as muscles were ...

A year after diagnosis, King’s neck became dislocated ... I woke up unable to move my head at all,” King said. King managed to survive the harrowing decapitation, which carries a 90% fatality ...

just a block from the tourist-destination Empire State Building, around 12:31 p.m. when an unidentified man pushed him to the ground and stabbed him three times in the neck. The attacker then ...

While immunotherapies have transformed treatment of many types of cancer, they do sometimes fail to have an impact – as Merck & Co has just observed in a study of Keytruda in head and neck cancer.

A cervicogenic headache develops in the neck and spreads to the head. It is a type of headache that results from another condition, such as muscle spasms, arthritis, or a pinched nerve.