Head and Neck Cancer News

Cancer Researcher Offer New Hope for Brain Tumor

Jim Black is fighting the meanest, most aggressive, most common kind of brain tumor in the United States:…    

Head & neck cancer in transplant patients: For better or worse?

Transplant patients who develop head and neck cancer are more likely to be non-smokers and non-drinkers, and less…    

Cancer sequencing initiative discovers mutations tied to aggressive childhood brain tumors

Researchers studying a rare, lethal childhood tumor of the brainstem discovered that nearly 80 percent of the tumors…    

Erlotinib dose-adjusted for smoking status effective as first treatment for head and neck cancer

Head and neck cancers respond well to the anti-cancer drug erlotinib when it is administered before surgery and…    

Personalized gene therapies may increase survival in brain cancer patients

Personalized prognostic tools and gene-based therapies may improve the survival and quality of life of patients suffering from…    

Enhanced treatment of brain tumors

Glioblastoma is regarded as the most malignant form of brain tumor. In many cases, neurosurgeons are not able…    

IMRT improves outcomes in patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and neck

Lymphoma is a cancer that affects organs of the immune system, including the lymph nodes. In a subtype…    

Early morning smokers have increased risk of lung and head and neck cancers

Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake…    

Convergence in head and neck cancer

Powerful new technologies that zoom in on the connections between human genes and diseases have illuminated the landscape…    

Hyperbaric Oxygen Tested for Aggressive Brain Cancer

In a unique study, researchers at The Long Island Brain Tumor Center at Neurological Surgery, P.C. are examining…    

Brain tumor discovery could lead to new treatment

Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a cellular pathway that cancer stem cells use to promote tumor growth in…    

Evidence “increasingly against” phone cancer risk

Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from…    

Certain head and neck cancer patients benefit from second round of treatment

A new study has determined predictors that can better identify patients who will benefit from a potentially toxic…    

New procedure to make brain surgery safer

Brain interventions must be planned so that the neurosurgeon can access and remove the tumor without causing unnecessary…    

Combining CT, FDG-PET provides more accurate treatments for head and neck cancer patients

Combining computerized tomography (CT) with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) images results in significantly more defined tumor outlines…    

Minimizing side effects from chemoradiation could help brain cancer patients live longer

Minimizing neurological side effects in patients with high-grade glioma from chemoradiation may result in improved patient survival, a…    

BNCT, a new-generation radiation treatment, is effective in advanced head and neck cancer

Biologically targeted BNCT treatment is based on producing radiation inside a tumour using boron-10 and thermal neutrons. Boron-10…    

New way to identify patients at risk of dysphagia after head and neck cancer treatment

At the 3rd International Conference on innovative approaches in Head and Neck Oncology (ICHNO), Dr Hanna Rahbek Mortensen…    

Gene expression to distinguish metastasizing from non-metastasizing head and neck cancers

The validation of a test, based on gene expression and predicting the tumours that will metastasize in lymph…    

HIV-positive head and neck cancer patients benefit from radiation therapy

HIV-positive head and neck cancer patients respond well to radiation therapy treatments and experience similar toxicity rates as…