Head and neck cancers include neoplasms of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx. The risk
of these cancers is strongly associated with smoking and alcohol ingestion. There have …

Laryngeal carcinoma is the 11th commonest form of cancer in men world-wide, with 121,000
new cases in 1985. More than 95% of all laryngeal malignancies are squamous cell …

Purpose To update the guideline recommendations on the use of larynx-preservation
strategies in the treatment of laryngeal cancer. Methods An Expert Panel updated the …

Abstract Objectives/Hypothesis: Management of the N0 neck is a continuing controversy.
The study compares the influence of N0 and N+ disease on the results of treating squamous …

There is still no consensus on the optimal treatment of the neck in oral cavity cancer patients
with clinical N0 neck. The aim of this study was to assess a possible benefit of elective neck …

Selective neck dissection is a modification of the more comprehensive modified radical or
radical neck dissection that is designed to remove only those nodal levels considered to be …

The significance of metastatic disease in the lymph nodes of the neck as a critical
independent prognostic factor in head and neck cancer has long been appreciated …

Background. The treatment of the neck in cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract is still a
matter of controversy, even though nowadays there is a trend in the literature toward elective …

The management of regional lymph nodes in the neck is an important subject since the
presence of clinically palpable cervical lymph node metastasis decreases the overall …

PURPOSE The volume treated with postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) is a mediator of
toxicity, and reduced volumes result in improved quality of life (QOL). In this phase II trial …