A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

Which patients is this strategy targeting? The inclusion was limited to stage I patients, presentations no longer considered locally advanced. Matted nodes were excluded explicitly, and the high ...

Recently, a large randomized trial found a survival advantage among patients who received elective neck dissection in conjunction with primary surgery for clinically node-negative oral cavity cancer ...

What Are the Different Types of Oral Cancer Surgery? Oral cancer surgery refers to a group of procedures with different jobs: removing cancer, rebuilding areas affected by treatment, or restoring key ...

Surgery for oral cancer aims to remove cancerous cells and a small margin of healthy tissue. The type and extent of cancer will determine the type of surgery doctors recommend. Oral cancer is a ...

June 3, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Acupuncture could be a viable option for reducing pain and dysfunction after neck dissection in head and neck cancer patients, new data suggest. The results of a ...

The Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery has a strong tradition of biomedical research in the areas of the special senses and other organ systems of the head and neck.

For patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, utilizing fluorodeoxyglucose-(FDG)-PET/CT imaging to assess their response to chemoradiation significantly increases the accuracy in ...

New data from a randomized, controlled trial found that acupuncture provided significant reductions in pain, dysfunction, and dry mouth in head and neck cancer patients after neck dissection. The ...