SPOHNC Newsletter

News from SPOHNC is a newsletter for cancer survivors, family, friends and health professionals. Timely articles help to increase awareness of the many ongoing issues related to oral and head and neck cancer while offering information, support and encouragement.

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Featured SPOHNC Articles

Sara Chigani, MA, MT-BC

Taking The Healing Aspect of Music Further

Written by: Sara Chigani, MA, MT-BC

“Oh, I’m not musical” or “I only play the radio” are a couple of typical answers I get after introducing myself as a music therapist. Yes, music is healing and as a board-certified music therapist I take the use of ...

Katharine Price, MD

Less Intensive Treatment May Be Possible For Some Patients with HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancer

Written by: Katharine Price, MD

In my experience as a head and neck medical oncologist, fear of long-term side effects of cancer treatment is second only to the fear of cancer recurrence. Treating the head and neck region using surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, can result ...

Jeoyoung Choi & Praveen Arany, BDS, MDS, MMSc, PhD

An Enlightening Summer Research Experience: Using Light Treatment for Oral Cancer Carez

Written by: Jaeyoung Choi and Praveen Arany, BDS, MDS, MMSc, PhD

Upon completing my first year at Dental School, I was looking at getting involved with dental research this summer to learn more about progress in the field of clinical care delivery. Although we had just started learning about the sophisticated ...

Steven J. Frank, MD

Proton Therapy Success with Head and Neck Cancer

Imagine a 196-ton, cancer-killing machine that can target a patient’s cancer with sub-millimeter precision while sparing nearby healthy tissues and minimizing side effects. In its most simple terms, that’s proton therapy. Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation treatment ...

Santosh Rao, MD

How Integrative Oncology Services Can Help Those Affected by Head and Neck Cancers

Written by: Santosh Rao, MD

Head and neck cancers, occurring in such a sensitive area of the body, can pose a number of issues for those undergoing treatment. The mainstays of curative treatment are surgery and/or radiation, both of which can cause many symptoms during ...

Geoffrey Neuner, MD

Recurrent and Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer

Written by: Geoffrey Neuner, MD

It is an understatement to say head and neck cancer is a challenging disease for patients, caregivers and clinicians. Curative treatment consists of either surgery, radiation or both, often combined with cytotoxic chemotherapy. The individual treatments for head and neck ...

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