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FDG-PET/CT Reduces Unnecessary Surgery in Head, Neck Cancer

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 ...
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Clinical utility of CT and FDG PET/CT in assessing the neck in node-positive head and neck cancer after chemoradiotherapy.

Predictive biomarkers in a phase II trial of weekly carboplatin (CBDCA), paclitaxel (P), and cetuximab (C) induction and chemoradiation (CRT) in patients (pts) with resectable stage III/IVa,b head and ...
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How MRI and CT predict flap failure after head and neck reconstructive cancer surgery

When a patient with head and neck cancer has surgery to remove it, they often need reconstructive surgery in the form of a “free flap”, which is skin and tissue taken from a different part of the body ...
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ECLYPS: Multicenter trial of FDG-PET/CT to detect residual nodal disease in locally advanced head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (LAHNSCC) after chemoradiotherapy (CRT).

Does addition of neck ultrasonography to physical examination, in follow-up of patients with early stage, clinically node negative oral cancers, influence outcome? A randomized control trial (RCT).
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Head and neck cancer researchers demonstrate the capability of a deep learning algorithm in the post-surgery setting to assess the stage of disease more accurately using ...

Artificial intelligence can augment current methods to predict the risk that head and neck cancer will spread outside the borders of neck lymph nodes, according to researchers with the ECOG-ACRIN ...