In this podcast, registered dietitians Annette Goldberg and Maureen Gardner discuss ways to cope with side effects that can make eating difficult due to treatment for head and neck cancer.
The mouth is a complex body part, and cancer treatment can affect it. Here are some tips for oral hygiene and keeping your mouth healthy before and during treatment.
In this Voices on Cancer post, advocate Holly Boykin describes why building awareness of oral, head, and neck cancers can save lives and some of the tools she’s used to empower her advocacy career.
ON THIS PAGE: You will read about how to with challenges in everyday life after a cancer diagnosis. Use the menu to see other pages.
The word “survivorship” is complicated because it means different things to different people. Common definitions include:
Having no signs of cancer after finishing treatment.
Living with, through, and beyond cancer. According to this definition, cancer survivorship begins at diagnosis and continues during treatment and through the rest of a person’s life.
ON THIS PAGE: You will read about how to cope with challenges in everyday life after a cancer diagnosis. Use the menu to see other pages.
The word “survivorship” is complicated because it means different things to different people. Common definitions include:
Having no signs of cancer after finishing treatment.
Living with, through, and beyond cancer. According to this definition, cancer survivorship begins at diagnosis and continues during treatment and through the rest of a person's life.
ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about screening for head and neck cancer. You will also learn the risks and benefits of screening. Use the menu to see other pages.
Screening is used to look for cancer before you have any symptoms or signs. Scientists have developed, and continue to develop, tests that can be used to screen a person for specific types of cancer. The overall goals of cancer screening are to:
Lower the number of people who die from the disease, or eliminate deaths from cancer altogether
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The Clayman Thyroid Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn more about clinical trials, which are the main way that new medical approaches are studied to see how well they work. Use the menu to see other pages.
Doctors and scientists are always looking for better ways to care for people with head and neck cancer. To make scientific advances, doctors create research studies involving volunteers, called clinical trials. Every drug that is now approved by the FDA was tested in clinical trials.
