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• Head & Neck Oncology Program

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• Hypopharyngeal Cancer Treatment
• Laryngeal Cancer Treatment
• Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer Treatment
• Metastatic Squamous Neck Cancer with Occult Primary Treatment
• Nasopharyngeal Cancer Treatment
• Oral Cancer Prevention
• Oral Cancer Screening
• Oropharyngeal Cancer Treatment
• Paranasal Sinus and Nasal Cavity Cancer Treatment
• Parathyroid Cancer Treatment
• Pituitary Tumors Treatment
• Salivary Gland Cancer Treatment
• Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Treatment
• Thyroid Cancer Treatment

Head & Neck Oncology

Diagnostic & Treatment Services

The program's treatment services include:

• Conservative ablative surgery
• Preservation of jaw bone, larynx, and speech
• Complex microvascular reconstruction surgery for soft tissue and bone
• Dental implants to restore occlusion (bite) and teeth
• Organ-sparing regimes for the larynx and base of the tongue
• Intra-arterial chemotherapy and chemo-embolization
• 3D conformal treatment
• External beam with hyperfractionation protocols
• Re-irradiation protocols
• Brachytherapy (low- and high-dose)
• Gamma Knife therapy
• Hyperbaric treatment to reverse radiation damage

This page was last updated on: December 5, 2006.

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