Sentences with phrase «how head and neck cancers»

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.

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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.

The next step based on these novel head and neck cancer discoveries, the scientists agree, is to tease out how the genes function in normal cells, whether they form the lining of the larynx, pharynx, or another anatomical site affected by head and neck cancer.

We are applying an interdisciplinary approach to study the consequences of aberrant activation of the cAMP / CREB / CRTC signal circuit on these adaptive responses and how cooperative signaling with other pathways promotes oncogenic processes in oral, head, and neck cancers.

Can you discuss how a feeding tube placed can help with nutritional intake during radiation therapy for head and neck cancer?