This study divided patients with esophageal cancer and multiple primary cancers into two groups, a head and neck cancer (HNC) group and a non-head and neck cancer (NHNC) group. These groups were then evaluated on the basis of clinical and pathological studies. Among 92 patients with esophageal cancer as one of multiple primary cancers, 38 (41.8%) were assigned to the HNC group. The following ch...

Neck abscess and deep neck infections are common diseases. Primary head and neck cancers may present initially with neck abscesses or deep neck infections. This presentation leads to delay of the diagnosis of underlying cancer. Head and neck cancers which present with deep neck infection initially have rarely been described. We report a case with relapsing deep neck infection who was diagnosed ...

Background: Different treatment and protective approaches for radiation-induced oral mucositis have been practiced and have varieties of success. Of which, radioprotective agents, synthetic or natural, have been of great interest for researchers. This study aims to evaluate the effect of curcuma longa topical gel as a herbal production on mucositis induced by radiation therapy of head and neck ...

background: different treatment and protective approaches for radiation-induced oral mucositis have been practiced and have varieties of success. of which, radioprotective agents, synthetic or natural, have been of great interest for researchers. this study aims to evaluate the effect of curcuma longa topical gel as a herbal production on mucositis induced by radiation therapy of head and neck ...

INTRODUCTION Cancers are among the worst noncommunicable diseases around the world. Head and neck cancers are ranked as the fifth most common cancers worldwide. As there are different distributions of risk factors around the world, the incidence of these cancers varies from one place to another. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a descriptive analytic cross-sectional study, based on census-b...

Introduction:Radiotherapy (RT) plays an important role in treatment of head and neck cancers. In almost 75% of patients with head and neck cancers, RT as the main treatment method is used in order to radical or palliative treatment. Hearing loss is one of the side effects of RT for patients whose inner ear is included in radiation field. The aim of this study was to evaluate th...

Head and neck cancers (HNC) are placed fifth among the common cancers occurring worldwide. Overall, head and neck cancer account for more than 550,000 cases annually worldwide (Jemal et al., 2011). The present computations highlighted that in India, 1 in 10 men and 1 in 8 women would develop cancer of any form sometime after the age of 35 (Murthy et al., 2011). Over 200,000 cases of head and ne...