Head & Neck/Thyroid Cancers
News
Don’t delay: Cancer patients need both doses of COVID vaccine
For patients with cancer, immune response to the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is reduced, and there is a need for a booster dose at...
Article
How has the pandemic affected rural and urban cancer patients?
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Cisplatin tops cetuximab for advanced head and neck cancer
Conference Coverage
Managing cancer outpatients during the pandemic: Tips from MSKCC
MSKCC has established guiding principles on how to manage cancer patients during the pandemic.
Article
COVID-19 vaccination in cancer patients: NCCN outlines priorities
Recommended timing of vaccination varies based on cancer and treatment type.
News
U.S. cancer death rates drop for second year in a row
Mortality from cancer continues to decline in the United States, driven largely by major reductions in death rates from non–small cell lung cancer...
News
Risk of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer linked to number of oral sex partners
News
‘Contrary’ to wide belief, abscopal effect is rare in cancer
The abscopal effect, whereby tumors are reduced or eliminated even though they are situated outside the radiation field, was first described in...
Article
Using telehealth to deliver palliative care to cancer patients
Dr. Alan Lyss discusses the use of telehealth for palliative cancer care, including results from the REACH PC trial.
News
One-month delay in cancer treatment linked to increase in mortality
The risk of death varied by treatment type.
