Head & Neck Cancer | Topics

“This might raise the potential of being able to detect disease recurrence much earlier than current clinical practice,” said Thomas Weiland, MD.

In working patients with head and neck cancer receiving radiotherapy, weight loss and an increase in pain, fatigue, and ECOG status were all found to be significantly associated with reductions in working days per week.

According to this study, patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer with a higher risk of cancer progression relative to competing mortality, defined by a higher ω score, selectively benefit from more intensive treatment.