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| Head and Neck Cancer Treatment | Common Methods | Surgery | Radiation | | Unit Review | |||||||||||
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Introduction | Anatomy | Abstracting, Coding, & Staging | | Hands-on Exercise | | |||||||||
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| Head and Neck Cancer Treatment | Common Methods | Surgery | Radiation | | Unit Review | |||||||||||
Under clinical investigation for treatment of various head and neck cancers is Isoretinoin (Retin-A). Used daily for a year, it may prevent development of subsequent primaries.
Key words
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy--chemotherapy administered prior to surgery or radiation therapy, intended to shrink tumor mass and make it more treatable by another modality.
Cisplatin
5-FU
Bleomycin
Methotrexate
Doxorubicin (adriamycin)
Cyclophosphamide
Interferon
