Head and Neck Cancer
Study examines changes in quality of life after head and neck cancer treatment
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, March 31st, 2008
In the year following their first treatment, patients with head and neck cancer report declines in their physical quality of life but improvements in their mental health quality of life, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Some types of treatment—especially feeding tube placement, chemotherapy and radiation therapy—were associated with changes in quality of life.
More than 40,000 new cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year, according to background information in the article. "In addition to mortality [death], head and neck cancer and its...
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