A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

Is it necessary to perform a neck dissection on all patients with advanced head and neck cancer? The authors performed a randomized trial in 564 patients recruited from 37 centers in the United ...

For patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, utilizing fluorodeoxyglucose-(FDG)-PET/CT imaging to assess their response to chemoradiation significantly increases the accuracy in ...

Locally advanced disease includes advanced T stage (T3 and T4) and advanced neck disease (N2 or greater). In an era of nonsurgical organ preservation approaches, primary and salvage surgery remains an ...

At the 2015 European Cancer Congress, Cheng et al presented an analysis of data from Taiwan national health insurance claims and the Taiwan cancer registry database, including data from 1,698 patients ...