A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

Ferris et al 1 have conducted and published the results of the E3311 trial. In the 2000s, RTOG performed phase II trials testing intensity-modulated radiotherapy in multi-institutional settings, and ...

Cancer that starts in the lymph nodes is lymphoma. Cancer may also spread from other areas of the body to various lymph nodes, including the neck. Swollen lymph nodes are usually due to a cause other ...

What Are the Different Types of Oral Cancer Surgery? Oral cancer surgery refers to a group of procedures with different jobs: removing cancer, rebuilding areas affected by treatment, or restoring key ...

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

Surgery for oral cancer aims to remove cancerous cells and a small margin of healthy tissue. The type and extent of cancer will determine the type of surgery doctors recommend. Oral cancer is a ...

For patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, utilizing fluorodeoxyglucose-(FDG)-PET/CT imaging to assess their response to chemoradiation significantly increases the accuracy in ...

Which patients is this strategy targeting? The inclusion was limited to stage I patients, presentations no longer considered locally advanced. Matted nodes were excluded explicitly, and the high ...