what health professionals treat patients with head and neck cancers?

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Are clinical trials (research studies) available for patients with head and neck cancers?

Answer 1

Many: Ear nose throat (ENT) doctors; surgical oncologists (cancer surgeons), plastic surgeons, radiation oncologists (treat with radiation); medical oncologist (treat with chemotherapy); speech therapists, nutritionists, physical therapists among others.

Answer 2

Many: Don't forget about pathologists: without a diagnosis you have nothing :).

Answer 3

Team work: It takes a team to treat and take care of head and neck patients. There are surgeons to do biopies or surgical removal, radiation and medical oncologist to give chemoradiation as primary or secondary treatment, speech therapist and nutritionist to support and rehab patients, nurses to monitor patients and last but not least pathologist to make diagnosis.

Answer 4

Healthy diet, vitami: Life style changes, healthy diet and high quality vitamins could help.

Answer 5

Proof of cell: Phone link not yet in, microwaves are relatively safe, but radiation is in the electromagnetic spectrum and is a clear cause, and u-v light is part of the spectrum causing skin cancers. All seem to demonstrate direct links to dose and time of exposure. X-rays seem to have no threshold, but very low doses are very unliklely to lead to individual harm, but to a population, a small number will.

Answer 6

Cell phones??: Cell phone radiation is low-frequency & low energy. It is actually nonionizing radiation. Unlike high frequency wave ionizing radiation, it is doubtful it can cause cancer in humans. Cell phone radiation was however, shown to ^ risk for developing schwannomas in rats & gliomas in other animal studies. REF: https://www.mskcc.org/blog/do-cell-phones-cause

Answer 7

Throttle: Think of the thyroid gland as the throttle for the speed by which metabolism occurs.

Answer 8

All abscesses : Require drainage for proper healing. Regardless of location.

Answer 9

Yes... See A Dentist: Yes, treatment is required. Antibiotics may be necessary to resolve the pus which you are describing as a white pimple like growth. An abscess usually becomes more painful as it seeks to find a way out. At some point it will break open & spill the pus out into your system. You need to resolve this asap & see a dentist as the bacterial load will not be healthy for you & is potentially serious.

Answer 10

Yes: Most oral abscess will need to be drained and treated, and not just with antbiotics. You need to remove the cause of the infection inorder for it to heal completely.

Answer 11

No, not at all: Seeing a dentist is best. The dentist can evaluate the location and the size of the abscess. This then determines if antibiotics alone is needed, if antibiotics and some kind of cleaning procedure is needed, and if surgical intervention is needed.

Answer 12

Cause of headache: The best way to tackle a headache is to figure out what's causing it in the first place - is it a migraine, from not eating breakfast this am, from skipping a dose of a medicine, from not getting enough sleep? There can be many reasons. For the run of the mill dull headache, i usually like to try some Ibuprofen and/or tylenol (acetaminophen) first and see how it feels after an hour or so.

Answer 13

Headaches: Your headaches could be coming from tension, dehydration, lack of sleep/poor sleep, skipping meals, stress, teeth grinding, sleep apnea/snoring, or chronic sinus problems among other things. See a doctor to get checked out so you can get som ehelp for your headaches.

Answer 14

Get checked out: A good start at finding potential headache triggers would be to maintain a diary. Every time you have a headache write down what you were doing, the foods you ate that day, alcohol, smoking, caffeine, stress, how much sleep you had the night before, eye strain, etc. Try to find patterns in your headache so that you can learn what things to avoid. Get checked by your doctor.

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