Head/Neck Cancer News

Dental extractions after radiation therapy to the head and neck should not be routinely performed due to considerable risk, according to results of a prospective cohort study.

Insurance status contributes to considerable disparities in care quality for patients with head and neck cancer, according to retrospective study results.

Spouses of people with cancer exhibited significantly higher risk for attempted suicide and suicide death than those whose spouses had not been diagnosed with cancer, according to a nationwide cohort study in Denmark.

An analysis of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who received immune checkpoint inhibitors showed those with obesity survived longer than those with normal BMI.

More than 16% of Americans live at least a 4-hour drive from the closest proton beam therapy facility, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Individuals with cannabis-related disorder exhibited increased risk for head and neck cancer, results of a retrospective cohort study showed.

The addition of an investigational cancer vaccine to pembrolizumab failed to improve outcomes for patients with metastatic or recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, according to the agent’s manufacturer.

Incidence rates for 17 different cancer types increased for successively younger generations in the United States during the past century.

Individuals who smoke tobacco using a waterpipe had a higher risk for death from multiple cancer types compared with those who never smoked, according to data from an ongoing cohort study published in JAMA Oncology.