frequency of head and neck cancer in india

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... suggestive of head and neck cancer. 3.2 DIAGNOSIS AND STAGING Diagnosis and staging of head and neck malignancy will normally include clinical examination byanexperiencedclinician,breopticendoscopy,neneedleaspiration(FNA)/corebiopsy of any ... Noevidencewasidentiedtosupporttheuse of chemotherapyaloneasacurativetreatment for squamous carcinoma of head and neck. In patients with head and neck cancer the administration of chemotherapy in combination with ... MANAGEMENT OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER 3 3 5 Overview of treatment of the primary tumour and neck Thissectionaddressestherstlinetreatment of head and neck cancer. Management of recurrent tumour...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... Guide to NECK DISSECTION CLASSIFICATION AND TNM STAGING OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER Committee for Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology American Academy of Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery Neck Dissection ... guide to neck dissection classification and TNM staging of head and neck cancer. — 3rd ed. / Committee for Head and Neck Surgery and Oncol- ogy, American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ... of: Pocket guide to neck dissection classification and TNM staging of head and neck cancer / Committee for Neck Dissection Classification, American Head and Neck Society [and] Committee for Head and...

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... criteria. B Fine needle aspiration cytology should be used in the investigation of head and neck masses. D The risk of having head and neck cancer can be reduced by:  not smoking or chewing tobacco  ... limiting alcohol consumption, in line with government guidelines  increasing the intake of fruit and vegetables   (specifically tomatoes), olive oil and fish oils  reducing the intake of ... metastatic disease in patients with head and neck cancer should include:  number of involved nodes  level of involved nodes  extracapsular spread of tumour C 2 DIAGNOSIS AND STAGING (cont) CT...

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... research and clinical purpose in order to determine the global functional outcome of speech and voice after the treatment of head and neck cancer. It allows quantifying the intelligibility also in ... therapy of malignant diseases of the head and neck, communication skills are of special interest. Until now, no objective method with low effort and costs existed to determine speech and voice ... validation set (the training and validation corpora were the same as in [16]). This ASR system is integrated into the “Program for the Evaluation and Analysis of all Kinds of Speech disorders” (PEAKS)...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... of advanced-stage head and neck cancer. Head Neck 1997, 19:500-505. 28. Mazer TM, Robbins KT, McMurtrey MJ, Byers RM: Resection of pulmonary metastases from squamous carcinoma of the head and neck. Am J ... publicationFile.pdf/KID2008.pdf]. 2. Mashberg A, Boffetta P, Winkelman R, Garfinkel L: Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and cancer of the oral cavity and oropharynx among U.S. veterans. Cancer 1993, 72:1369-1375. 3. ... tract cancer [28]. Finley et al reported on their evaluation of surgical resection of pulmonary metastases of head and neck cancer that a resection of a solitary pulmonary metastasis resulted in...

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... an H score of more than 1.5 and were thus defined as having a high expression of ERCC1. As can be seen in Table 1 a summary of result of the ERCC1 immunostaining of the cancer cells and its correlation ... predicts cisplatin- based chemotherapy resistance and poor outcome in unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck in a betel-chewing area. Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:31. Chiu ... ≤2ontheEasternCooperativeOncology Group(ECOG)scale,adequatebonemarrow,hepatic and renal function (creatinine clearance >60 ml/min), and a compute d tomography or magnetic reson ance image scan of the head and neck region within t hree weeks prior to the initiation of...

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... an H score of more than 1.5 and were thus defined as having a high expression of ERCC1. As can be seen in Table 1 a summary of result of the ERCC1 immunostaining of the cancer cells and its correlation ... predicts cisplatin- based chemotherapy resistance and poor outcome in unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck in a betel-chewing area. Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:31. Chiu ... ≤2ontheEasternCooperativeOncology Group(ECOG)scale,adequatebonemarrow,hepatic and renal function (creatinine clearance >60 ml/min), and a compute d tomography or magnetic reson ance image scan of the head and neck region within t hree weeks prior to the initiation of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... E: Apoptotic and inflammation markers in oral mucositis in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy: preliminary report. Support Care Cancer 2008, 16:1025-1033. 20. Dinarello CA: Biology of interleukin ... pilot study of longitudinal serum cytokine and angiogenesis factor levels as markers of therapeutic response and survival in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Head Neck 2005, 27:771-784. 17. ... Expression of proinflammatory and proangiogenic cytokines in patients with head and neck cancer. Clin Cancer Res 1999, 5:1369-1379. 9. Kanazawa T, Nishino H, Hasegawa M, Ohta Y, Iino Y, Ichimura...

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... areas might be useful in assigning dose intensification during IMRT. Of course, the medical significance of including these additional data in the original treatment plan on final patient outcome ... PET-CT-based intensity-modulated radiotherapy treatment planning of head and neck cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007, 69:286-293. 26. Schinagl DA, Vogel WV, Hoffmann AL, van Dalen JA, Oyen WJ, Kaanders ... J, Ringash J, Yu E, Hendler A, Waldron J: Intraobserver and interobserver variability in GTV delineation on FDG-PET-CT images of head and neck cancers. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007, 68:763-770. 30....

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... radiathion therapy in head and neck cancers: an update. Head and Neck 2007, 29:387-400. 3. Popovtzer A, Eisbruch A: Advances in radiation therapy of head and neck cancer. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther ... extent of tumour shown by imaging, including all involved (positive) lymph nodes. MRI, and in few cases FDG-PET, were used in the delineation of GTV. On the basis of the primary t umour size and involved ... the usage of rather small CTV to PTV margins. Moreover, in the head and neck region, clinicians can easily detect tumour variations of the patient volume and anatomy. In terms of planning time,...

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... Advanced Head- and- Neck Cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics 2009, 73:410-415. 4. Cooper J, Fleming ID, editors, HD: Head and Neck Cancer. AJCC Manual for Staging of Cancer. ... 6:1 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/6/1/1 Page 3 of 8 25. Chao KSC, Gokhan O, Wade LT: Toxicity profile of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck carcinoma and potential role of amifostine. Seminars in oncology ... observer-assessed instruments. Patient-reported clinical swallowing function was evaluated using the “European Organi zation for Research and Tre atment of Cancer (EORTC) head- and- neck 35-item swallowing and...

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