While treatments for head and neck cancer are aimed at curing patients from disease, they
can have significant short-and long-term negative impacts on speech and swallowing …

Objective: Clinical practices of speech-language pathologists (SLP) treating head and neck
cancer (HNC) patients range widely despite literature trending toward best practices. This …

Objectives/Hypothesis The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of developing
an integrated head and neck cancer speech and swallowing rehabilitation program on …

The diagnosis of “cancer” represents a broad category of diseases. Carcinomas arise from
epithelial cells, whereas sarcomas arise from connective tissue. Carcinoma can be further …

Head and neck cancer and its treatment can leave patients with impaired swallowing and
ability to communicate. A multidisciplinary approach from the speech and language therapist …

Purpose Treatment for oral cancer has debilitating effects on speech and swallowing,
however, little is known about current speech-language pathology practice. Method An …

This article presents optimal patterns of care for management of head and neck cancer
patients. Discussion includes how the head and neck cancer multidisciplinary team makes …

Oral and oropharyngeal cancers are amongst the commonest cancers worldwide and
present a major health problem. Owing to their critical anatomical location and complex …

Management of head and neck cancer (HNC) continues to change, with advances in
treatment approaches contributing to improvements in disease-specific survival and …

In this paper, we report on common speech and swallowing dysfunction that occurs after
surgery, radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer (oral cavity, pharynx …