cancer: head and neck
Immunotherapy in head and neck cancer: aiming at EXTREME precision
... and neck cancers are an immunosuppressive group of diseases that employ different immune evasion ...oropharyngeal cancer as well as most remaining SCCHN cases linked to alcohol and tobacco [26, ...on ...
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Matrix metalloproteinases in head and neck cancer: current perspectives
... Earlier anti-MMP drug designs focused on the catalytic role of MMPs ostensibly responsible for matrix remodeling, angiogenesis, and cancer invasion. However, it is now well known that the structure of MMP-family ...
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Xanthogranuloma in the heavily irradiated low neck in a patient with head and neck cancer
... clinical diagnosis first described in the 1950s, referring to children with one or more of these lesions [4]. JXG is thought to be a benign disorder, although ocular involve- ment may impact 0.5 % of patients with skin ...
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PET CT surveillance versus neck dissection in advanced head and neck cancer
... of Head and Neck Stud- ies and Education, University of Birming- ham ...Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow ...of Head and Neck Studies and Education, College of Medical and Dental ...
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Self care for head and neck cancer survivors with lymphedema and fibrosis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... the Head and Neck Cancer Clinics in the University of Pennsylvania Health System is sufficient to complete this trial without add- itional ...at Head and Neck Cancer ...the ...
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Tobacco Exposure and Alcoholic usage as Risk Factors of Head and Neck Cancer
... oral cancer associated with alcohol consumption is more common when compared with pharyngeal cancer in Italy and Switzerland population (Franceschi et ...laryngeal cancer are also consistently ...
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Dysphagia in head and neck cancer: A review
... Chemoradiation has been an empirically supported main- stay in the treatment of head and neck cancer for over two decades. This practice, combined with earlier age at diagnosis and longer survival ...
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Role of DNA methylation in head and neck cancer
... and neck cancer (HNC) is a highly heterogenous group of malignant diseases and the sixth most frequently observed cancer type in developing countries (Crowe et ...larynx cancer (Ohshima et ...
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The Danish Head and Neck Cancer database
... The value of any database is linked with its use, and the qual- ity data are accessible through access to the RKKP (http:// www.rkkp.dk/forskningsadgang/). Throughout the years, the DAHANCA database has been extensively ...
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MERTK as a novel therapeutic target in head and neck cancer
... in head and neck ...gastric cancer [24], only the last study investigated MERTK expression in context with clinico-pathological ...gastric cancer [24], but in gastric cancer patients ...
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Metallopanstimulin as a marker for head and neck cancer
... Surveillance in the post-treatment head and neck cancer patients has traditionally centered on regular physical examination [2,3]. Office flexible fiberoptic exams of these patients have provided an ...
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Venous thromboembolism in head and neck cancer surgery
... and cancer are major risk factors for VTE, compliance with chemoprophylaxis guidelines has traditionally been low in head and neck ...in head and neck patients and potential for ...
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Cervicopectoral flap in head and neck cancer surgery
... [2]. Neck dissection is one of the most commonly performed procedures in the management of nodal metastasis in head and neck ...with head and neck cancer especially in the middle ...
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Chemopreventive agents in head and neck cancer
... including head and neck cancer which suggested that blocking of this protein can prevent the ...of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and has great future promise in chemoprevention ...
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Current relevance of hypoxia in head and neck cancer
... advanced head and neck tumors and hypoxic imaging using (18F)-misonidazole positron emission tomography, equally Mortensen et ...oropharyngeal cancer mostly have a more favorable prognosis, however ...
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Marijuana and head and neck cancer: an epidemiological review
... oropharyngeal cancer was the site of the highest prevalence in the marijuana user group com- pared to the non-user group (oropharyngeal cancer ...predominant head and neck disease site in ...
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Reconstructive options in Head & Neck Cancer Surgeries.
... for head and neck reconstruction have been described schematically as a ladder; starting from direct closure and skin grafting and moving forward to local flaps, regional cutaneous and myocutaneous pedicled ...
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Nutritional Problems in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
... and neck tumors are the fifth most common type of cancer and at the same time the fifth most common cause of death associated with cancer in the ...the head and neck have a negative ...
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Synchronous Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Stage III and IV Head and Neck Cancer: Comparing Cisplatin with Capecitabine
... To conclude, synchronous chemo-radiotherapy with capecitabine was found to be very effective, with excel- lent response, superior local control and 3-year cancer- specific survival rates. In spite of higher rates ...
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Cancer stem cells in head and neck cancer
... Abstract: Cancer stem cells (CSCs), also called “cells that start the tumor,” represent in themselves one of the most topical and controversial issues in the field of cancer ...of cancer stem cells ...
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