... Guide to NECK DISSECTIONCLASSIFICATION AND TNM STAGINGOFHEAD AND NECK CANCER Committee for HeadandNeck Surgery and OncologyAmerican Academy of Otolaryngology– Head andNeck Surgery Neck Dissection ... of: Pocket guide to neck dissection classification and TNM stagingofheadandneckcancer / Committee for Neck DissectionClassification, American HeadandNeck Society [and] Committee for Head and ... 2008Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataPocket guide to neck dissection classification andTNMstagingofhead and neck cancer. — 3rd ed. / Committee for HeadandNeck Surgery and Oncol-ogy,...
... therapy of malignant diseases of the head and neck, communication skills are of special interest. Untilnow, no objective method with low effort and costs existedto determine speech and voice ... a valuable means for research and clinical purpose inorder to determine the global functional outcome of speech and voice after the treatment ofheadandneck cancer. Itallows quantifying the ... techniques and was testedon speech of patients with different but significant extents of speech disorder (dysglossia) and voice disorder (dysphonia)after the treatment for headandneck cancer. 2....
... Ang KK: Final report of RTOG 9610, a multi-institutional trial ofreirradiation and chemotherapy for unresectablerecurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the headand neck. Head Neck 2008, 30:281-8.20. ... Williamson SK, Von Hoff DD: Randomizedcomparison of cisplatin plus fluorouracil and carboplatin plusfluorouracil versus methotrexate in advanced squamous-cell carcinoma of the headand neck: a Southwest ... BodyRadiotherapy for Locally Recurrent Head- and- Neck Tumors. Int J RadiatOncol Biol Phys .14. Langlois D, Eschwege F, Kramar A, Richard JM: Reirradiation of the head andneck cancers. Radiother Oncol 1985,...
... 12DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OFHEADANDNECK CANCER 335 Overview of treatment of the primary tumour and neck Thissectionaddressestherstlinetreatment ofheadandneck cancer. Management of recurrenttumour ... practitioners should be aware of symptoms suggestive ofheadandneck cancer. 3.2 DIAGNOSIS ANDSTAGING Diagnosis andstagingofheadandneck malignancy will normally include clinical examination ... practitioners, should be aware of the presenting features ofheadandneck cancer, and the local referral pathways for suspected cancers. 2.5 SCREENING FOR HEADANDNECKCANCER There is no evidence...
... cavityLarynxOropharynxHypopharynxALL HEADANDNECK CANCERS Diagnosis and management of headandneck cancer Quick Reference Guide October 200690COPIES OF ALL SIGN GUIDELINES ARE AVAILABLE ... should be aware of the presenting features of head andneck cancer, and the local referral pathways for suspected cancers.Dental practitioners should include a full examination of the oral ... part of routine dental check up. 1PRESENTATION AND SCREENINGREFERRALDIAGNOSIS AND STAGING Patients should be seen within two weeks of urgent referral. All patients with headandneck cancer...
... treatment for headandneck squamous-cell carcinoma:three meta-analyses of updated individual data. MACH-NC CollaborativeGroup. Meta-Analysis of Chemotherapy on HeadandNeck Cancer. Lancet ... an H score of morethan 1.5 and were thus defined as having a high expression of ERCC1. As can be seen in Table 1 a summary of result of the ERCC1 immunostaining of the cancer cells and itscorrelation ... nut chewing area.BackgroundSquamous cell carcinoma of the headand neck (HNSCC) is the sixth most common cancer i n theworld[1]andtwo-thirdsofthese patients initially pre-sent with locally advanced...
... treatment for headandneck squamous-cell carcinoma:three meta-analyses of updated individual data. MACH-NC CollaborativeGroup. Meta-Analysis of Chemotherapy on HeadandNeck Cancer. Lancet ... intergroup phase III comparison of standard radiationtherapy and two schedules of concurrent chemoradiotherapy inpatients with unresectable squamous cell headandneck cancer. J ClinOncol 2003, ... an H score of morethan 1.5 and were thus defined as having a high expression of ERCC1. As can be seen in Table 1 a summary of result of the ERCC1 immunostaining of the cancer cells and itscorrelation...
... inpatients with advanced headandneckcancer who receivechemotherapy and radiation therapy. Radiology 1996, 201:675-680.4. Wood K: Audit of nutritional guidelines for headandneck cancer patients ... The role of IL-6 and STAT3 ininflammation and cancer. Eur J Cancer 2005, 41:2502-2012.23. Woods KV, El-Naggar A, Clayman GL, Grimm EA: Variable expression of cytokines in human headandneck squamous ... for locally advanced headandneck cancer. N Engl J Med2004, 350:1945-1952.13. Cooper JS, Bernier J: Rationale for triage in the postoperativemanagement ofheadandneck cancers. Oncology 2005,...
... radiotherapytreatment planning ofheadandneck cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys2007, 69:286-293.26. Schinagl DA, Vogel WV, Hoffmann AL, van Dalen JA, Oyen WJ, Kaanders JH:Comparison of five segmentation ... staging ofheadandneckcancer (HNC) [1-5].18F-FDG PETafter definitive radiotherapy (RT) has also been shownto have a good negative predictive value in patients withHNC [6,7]. The use of 18F-FDG ... readings, and it allows for definition of threshold level and reproducible contouring of hyperme-tabolic areas.Delineation of CT-based tumor volumeOn the basis of axial CT images, contouring of thetumor...
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... improvement of tumor staging, optimiza-tion of treatment strategy, and better delineation of targetvolume[12].The advantage of PET/CT fusion has been already reportedfor stagingand RT planning of ... scenario of imaging for radiotherapy ofhead and neck tumors may include the use of functional imagingsuch as FDG-PET/CT with the aim to characterize the bio-logical features of the tumor and optimize ... radiotherapy treatment planningfor headandneck cancer. HeadandNeck 2005, 27:494-502.22. Wang D, Schultz CJ, Jursinic PA, Bialkowski M, Zhu XR, Brown WD,Rand SD, Michel MA, Campbell BH, Wong...