Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium News

 

To access the recorded briefings from head and neck meeting, visit the press kit.

• Larynx preservation treatments result in low instance of severe voice disability, nutritional dysfunction

• Proton beam therapy shows encouraging long-term outcome for patients with locally advanced sinonasal cancers

• Pretreatment SUV associated with head and neck cancer treatment outcomes, may help decide treatment plans

• Accelerated radiation therapy reduces toxicity in patients with advanced head and neck cancers

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