Raising awareness of the dangers of mouth and throat cancer increased the number of black men in some of Florida’s poorest counties who sought screening for…

A common mutation associated with thyroid cancer did not predict an unfavorable prognosis and had no consistent association with adverse characteristics, a review of patient records showed.

The BRAF V600E…

Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of…

Even though the human papillomavirus (HPV) is a risk factor for certain head and neck cancers, its presence could make all the difference in terms of survival, especially for…

Next-generation sequencing analyses of the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma may elucidate the biological underpinnings and clinical behavior of an increasingly common…

Blacks in the U.S. with throat cancer are more likely than whites to have surgery that leaves them unable to speak than to get gentler voice-preserving treatments, a new study…

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a new indicator that may predict which patients with a common type of throat cancer…

Deaths from mouth and throat cancer have dropped since the early 1990s, according to a new study - but only among people with at least a high school education.

Researchers said…

Scientists from Singapore, China and USA have identified three new susceptibility genes in a genome-wide association study of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The study, led…

Green tea may not offer any protection against throat cancer, a new study suggests, and drinking the beverage piping-hot may actually raise a person’s risk of the disease.

A number…

People are advised to wait a few minutes before drinking a cup of freshly-boiled tea today as a new study, published on bmj.com, finds that drinking…

We report a rare case of lymphoepithelial cyst of the mediastinum. A 38-year-old woman was found to have a right paratracheal mediastinal mass on chest radiograph. Computed tomographic scanning showed a…

A new study reveals significant racial and ethnic differences in the treatment and survival of patients with soft-tissue sarcomas, a rare but dangerous cancer that begins in muscle, fat, blood…

A small study suggests that a few months of voice therapy may improve a person’s ability to speak after treatment of early-stage glottic cancer, a form of cancer that affects…

For people with cancer of the larynx or lower pharynx, continuing to smoke or drink alcohol make it less likely that they’ll survive, while eating a diet rich in vegetables…