Patients
with head and neck cancer seldom survive for longer than six months to one year when treated with chemotherapy alone.
The findings provide information essential for designing novel targeted drugs that might improve the treatment
of head and neck cancer.
Cats tend to have a type of skin cancer in their heads and mouths that some researchers are using as a model for
human head and neck cancers.
Now
head and neck cancers associated with the virus are on the rise, leading some experts to recommend that a gender - neutral or male - centric approach might be more effective.
His research combines laboratory experiments and mathematical models to more fully understand
how head and neck cancers form and how to better design treatments for these cancers.
Can you discuss how a feeding tube placed can help with nutritional intake during radiation therapy
for head and neck cancer?
The effects of the pactamycin analogs, called TM - 025 and TM - 026, were characterized
in head and neck cancer cell lines, which cause the eighth most common cancer in the world.
«Many common cancers, such
as head and neck cancers, become untreatable despite the best medical intervention and the highest standard of care.
He and his colleagues found HPV encased in biofilms inside pockets on the tonsil surface, called tonsil crypts, which is where HPV -
related head and neck cancers often originate.
Kurt Deetz, head and neck cancer survivor
In addition, the researchers would like to understand if using antacids in people with reflux disease or people with precancerous lesions might reduce their risk of
developing head and neck cancer.
Conventional medicine's main types of treatment for
head and neck cancers include: • Surgery • Radiation therapy • Chemotherapy • Targeted therapy • Palliative therapy
The study, by O'Donnell;
head and neck cancer specialists Everett E. Vokes, MD, physician - in - chief and chair of the Department of Medicine, and Ezra Cohen, MD; and several investigators from the CPT team and Department of Human Genetics, was published in the May 2011 Translational Research.
This research is funded through Pitt's Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant in
head and neck cancer from the National Cancer Institute.
Most head and neck cancers require endoscopic assessments and biopsies before initiation of treatment, resulting in longer delays, while diagnosis is made after therapeutic surgery for most brain tumours, resulting in shorter delays.
The Alabama scientists have now shown how it works
against head and neck cancers: It blocks a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR.
As the former chair of the department of radiation oncology at both the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Kumar has initiated clinical trials on prostate cancer through the U.S. Department of Defense and
on head and neck cancer through the National Cancer Institute.
A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) has identified a biochemical pathway in cancer stem cells that is essential for
promoting head and neck cancer.
«People with hepatitis C are two to five times more likely to develop
certain head and neck cancers: first study to find association with new cancer types; findings have strong implications for screening and treatment.»
At UT Southwestern Medical Center's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, we provide access to some of the latest treatments for
head and neck cancer through our extensive offering of clinical trials.
Head and neck cancers survival in England is generally higher for people diagnosed aged 15 - 49 compared with other age groups, though the association with age varies by subtype.
«Using knockout mice, which are model organisms bred to have a particular gene missing, is not feasible when there are 800 potential
head and neck cancer genes to sort through,» says Daniel Schramek, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, which is headed by Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Elaine Fuchs.
Between 32 % to 75 % of patients diagnosed with
head and neck cancers cancer have surgery to remove the tumour as part of their primary cancer treatment.
A new study suggests that Silicon Valley upstart Grail, which is creating «liquid biopsy» technology that can detect cancer through DNA fragments in the blood (rather than a conventional tissue sample), may be able to help
boost head and neck cancer patients» chances of survival.
Cancer - free following his latest quarterly checkup, ex-Buffalo Bills Hall - of - Fame quarterback Jim Kelly is drawing on his experiences to aid others
battling head and neck cancer, teaming up with several cancer organizations and pharmaceutical giant Merck to produce a promotional campaign titled «Your Cancer Game Plan,» which debuted today.
Epstein - Barr is best known for causing infectious mononucleosis, but it is also associated with an increased risk for several cancers, as well as a rare type of
head and neck cancer called nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
This is important because the fraction of
head and neck cancers attributable to HPV infection has increased by 250 percent over the past several decades, Dr. Ferris explained.
They'd beat the lung cancer, but then they'd
get head and neck cancer, or breast cancer or colon or pancreatic cancer,» says Weidhaas.
«This study defines a signaling axis that is essential for
head and neck cancer progression, and our findings show that this axis may be disrupted at three key steps,» says principal investigator Quintin Pan, PhD, associate professor of otolaryngology at the OSUCCC — James.
Researchers at Oregon State University are pursuing a new concept in treatment of epithelial cancer,
especially head and neck cancer, by using two promising «analogs» of an old compound that was once studied as a potent anti-tumor agent, but long ago abandoned because it was too toxic.