Head and Neck Cancer Information Center
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Headline Head and Neck Cancer News 
Following Lifestyle Recommendations Reduces Risk of Cancer Death
People who follow the diet and lifestyle recommendations laid out by the WCRF and the AICR have a 20 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer.
National Video Contest Inspires Awareness of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer
Media Contact: Lauren Abel MCS Healthcare Public Relations (800) 477-9626 laurena@mcspr.com National...
Cancer Deaths on the Decline
Overall cancer death rates are declining and cancer incidence has decreased in men and stabilized in women.
Head and Neck Cancer Tips
Living Wills Every competent adult has, in most cases, the freedom to accept or refuse...
What is Caregiving and Who are Caregivers? Caregivers are individuals who provide...
Women who confront a cancer diagnosis before beginning or completing their families...
Head and Neck Cancer Management
Inspiration, Hope & Resources
Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation Jon Albert, founder of the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation shows the...
Moving Bodies, Changing Lives Moving On Aerobics helps women regain joy of movement and physical fitness after...
Where Kids Can Be Kids… And Cancer Takes a Back Seat Cancer camps for kids provide fun and camaraderie for children facing down a cancer...
Head and Neck Cancer Clinical Trials
GOG0522 – A Randomized, Phase III Trial of Concurrent Accelerated Radiation and Cisplatin versus Concurrent Accelerated Radiation, Cisplatin, and Cetuximab (C225) (Followed by Surgery in Selective Patients) for Stage III and IV Head and neck Carcinomas
20020402 – A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Weekly Doses of Palifermin (Recombinant Human Keratinocyte Growth Factor, rHuKGF) for the Reduction of Oral Mucositis in Subjects With Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Receiving Radiotherapy With Concurrent Chemotherapy (RT/CT)
INST0612C – Relationship of Mucositis Severity to Nutrition Intake in Head and Neck Cancer Patients




