Limiting toxicity by reducing the amount of mucosa exposed to radiation is a logical and practical way of minimizing the damage from radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancers.

GORTEC is a cooperative group dedicated to Head and Neck Oncology. GORTEC has a long-standing experience of large scale international innovative phase III trials relying on a robust high-quality study ...

Our radiation oncologists, including Nancy Lee, have special training in caring for people with head and neck cancer. Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that involves sending high-energy beams of ...

The problem, says Ono, is that the neutrons used for BNCT are a relatively weak form of radiation and can’t be applied deep in the body at therapeutic levels. Head and neck cancers are usually ...

Erbitux (cetuximab) outperforms Imfinzi (durvalumab) for head and neck cancer when cisplatin isn’t an option, finds a new ...

Chemotherapy is a treatment for head and neck cancer that uses powerful drugs to attack cancer cells. Often chemotherapy drugs are given before or during radiation to improve the effectiveness of care ...