This guide for newly diagnosed patients provides key information to help you understand your options and have informed conversations with your oncologist. A diagnosis of head and neck cancer can bring ...

Head and neck cancer is a broad term for several types of cancers that include the mouth (oral cavity), throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx), sinuses and nose cavity, and salivary glands. Head and ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer. After your diagnosis, you will learn the stage of the cancer. The stage lets you know how far, if at all, the cancer has spread from the ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that bacteria inside cancerous tumors may be key to understanding why ...

Compared with standard concurrent chemoradiation, neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by transoral robotic surgery (NECTORS) and neck dissection led to superior distant metastasis-free and overall ...

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has developed and validated an ...

Adding neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab to the standard of care significantly improved event-free survival in patients with previously untreated, locally advanced head and neck squamous cell ...

US researchers have developed and validated an artificial intelligence (AI)-based non-invasive tool that can predict the risk ...

Ending a 20-year-plus drought, Merck & Co.’s Keytruda demonstrated that its use around surgery can reduce the risk of certain head and neck cancers from returning. Continuous use of Keytruda—both ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is a type of head and neck cancer. It affects the cells in the middle part of your throat, or what’s called the oropharynx. Early signs are easy to miss. “We can't see that area ...