Routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck of patients with thyroid cancer may help prevent the disease from recurring, according to a new study (Surgery, December 2011, Vol. 150:6, pp. 1048-1057).

Adequate lymph node yield for patients with papillary thyroid cancer is associated with longer operations, longer hospitalization, and higher risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury and hypocalcemia, ...

Toxicity and psychological impact of TPF induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy or by surgery plus radiotherapy in stage III-IV oropharyngeal cancer: A longitudinal comparison ...

Whether patients with early-stage oral cancers should be treated with elective neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery or with therapeutic neck dissection after nodal relapse has been a ...

Phase I study of cetuximab, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (C-IMRT), and intratumoral EGFR antisense (AS) DNA in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer (HNC). This is an ASCO Meeting ...

A common technique for determining whether melanoma has spread can be used safely and effectively even in tumors from the head and neck area, according to a new study from the University of Michigan ...