SHREVEPORT, La. - A new landmark study published in The Lancet is changing how doctors treat certain head and neck cancers.

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 ...

Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at University of Maryland School of Medicine joins Alex to discuss the causes of head and neck cancers and how radiation therapy can ...

In definitive radiotherapy, reducing the elective dose from 50 Gy to 43 Gy was safe and did not significantly increase the risk for recurrence in electively irradiated lymph nodes among patients with ...

The therapy is a highly advanced form of radiation therapy that uses charged particles in the form of a proton that that gets ...

Surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) is rapidly emerging as an essential modality in the treatment of cancer, leveraging non‐invasive optical imaging to monitor patient positioning in real time.

The IAEA has launched a new two-year coordinated research project to explore how artificial intelligence can assist with contouring — a crucial step in cancer treatment, in which a tumour and the ...

Sun safety is always important. Exposure to ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) rays from the sun damages skin in ways that can lead to wrinkles, sunburns, and skin cancer. Both chemotherapy ...

A novel tumor suppressor, BATF2, can be silenced by factors in the tumor microenvironment, leading to a reduced immune response in five preclinical models of head and neck cancer, according to ...