As If We Don’t Have Enough to Think About

My work recently took me to the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Head and Neck Cancer.  Among the proceedings was a discussion of the epidemiology of oropharyngeal cancer—cancer of the throat.  Historically, this tumor typically occurred in people with long histories of smoking and drinking.  Treatment brings the prospect of disfiguring surgery, although the surgeons do great work these days, and/or a 6-7 week slog of radiation... // Read More »
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