Speech On Head And Neck Cancer

As dental hygienists we are members of the healthcare community. That means that we have an extremely important role when it comes to the health of our patients. When patients present themselves in our treatment room, it is our responsibility to make sure we do not leave anything unexamined. We are professionals in the practice of identifying, preventing, and treating oral diseases. We do this by completing thorough extraoral and intraoral exams and being conscious of what to look for. One particular exam that we do is an oral cancer exam. As dental hygienists we are at the forefront in identifying this disease. In an article written by Nancy Burkhart, a coauthor of General and Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist, she states, “It is known that oral cancer is more likely to be detected in an early stage in the dental office than those found at a physician’s office, which tend to be at a later stage.” (Burkhart, 2014) This may be because dental hygienists focus more on the oral tissues than physicians do; or the fact that patients go to a doctor when it is already at advanced stages. It is imperative that we as dental hygienists know the signs and symptoms of oral cancer, as well as the risk factors involved in developing the disease and how it can be prevented. While it is important as a dental hygienist to identify oral diseases, it is more important to educate our patients on how they can avoid any potential abnormalities from becoming severe problems,

Findings were classified into 3 categories based on evidence; recommendation, suggestion or no guideline possible. The study concluded that based on data analysis, oral cryotherapy is recommended for prophylactic use for solid tumors given a dose of 5-FU as an intravenous (IV) bolus; suggested for chemo agent, Melphalan HSCT with or without total body irradiation; and no guideline possible for solid tumors using continuous IV infusion of 5-FU, edatrexate, etoposide, mitomycin, or vinblastine. This article is helpful in establishing the fact that there is a role for oral cryotherapy in the prevention of some chemo-related oral mucositis. There is still an area for investigation with other chemo

Summary of article: In “Bridging the HPV Knowledge Gap,” Christina Demopoulos and two others talk about the importance of knowledge on HPV and how most patients are unaware of this virus and that is it on the oral health professionals to educate them. This virus is transmitted easily through a small cut or tear in the oral cavity and is associated with a variety of oral lesion, cances, and oropahygnel cancers. The article included a statistic that about 12,000 people between ages 15 and 24 are affected everyday by HPV and its only increasing. HPV causes more than 30,000 cancer cases a year which the average age diagnosis is 62, but ther is arise of cases in the adolescents. With that being said, it is put on oral health professional to discuss the ipmo ratio of HPV with patients, and they should become more familiar with HPV because there is an association between HPV and oropharyngeal cancers. One way to bridge the HPV knowledge gap is to do what NEvada is doing. Nevada has a Immunization program which promotes for better health and they hold a lot of information conferences. Overall,

In Australia, Cancer is acknowledged as a priority issue that needs improving for Australia’s overall health. In 2004, cancer accounted for 28% of all deaths in Australia, 33.3% were males and 25.9% were females. A trend that has occurred between 1991 and 2011 gives Australia’s health, relating to cancer, hope that cancer deaths will continually be declining due to many factors. The trend is, the number of deaths between 1991 and 2011, had majorly declined by 17% and still to today the numbers are declining. Cancer mortality rates could be reduced by changes to lifestyle, for example, no smoking and eating balanced diet. The most common cancers in Australia are non-melanoma skin cancers, which are often self detected and usually

found that the cancer is more common in certain parts of Asia and North Africa, particularly

Radiation to the head and neck includes oral problems including mucositis, taste loss, loss of

Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Accounts for 20% of non-melanoma cancers and causes death in about 10% of affected patients.

From 1998 to 2003, the incidence rates for HPV-associated cancers of the tonsils and tongue increased 3.0% per year, while non-HPV cancers of the mouth and throat decreased during this time (Ramqvist and Dalianis, 2010).

Oral cancer is a devastating disease. Over eight thousand American lives are taken by oral cancer and only a fourth of these patients do not excessively drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, which are the two main causes of oral cancer (The Oral Cancer Foundation). Survival rates for oral cancer could be much higher if the population would take precautionary measures to reduce their chances of being diagnosed with oral cancer. When the use of alcohol and tobacco are decreased, the chances of acquiring oral cancer are also decreased. By visiting the dentist at least once every year, new lesions could be found. Unfortunately, only seven percent of the population, who visits the dentist regularly, receives a thorough oral cancer exam(The Oral

While pursuing my degree at HSDM, I gained enormous experience by practicing oral medicine at the Brigham and Women Hospital in which I acted as a primary care providerprovided care for patients with various diseases of the head and neck, including oral and maxillofacial, odontogenic, and non-odontogenic, diseases, including but not limited to infectious, vesiculo-bullous, auto-immune diseases, Sjögren syndrome, and chronic graft versus host disease. I also collaborated competently and effectively in the health care environment as a member of a multi- disciplinary health care team to facilitate the provision of health care, through participations in tumor boards, seminars, and teaching rounds during medical rotations. In addition, I participated

Standard treatment for throat cancers include radiation, surgery and chemotherapy. For early-stage cancers, radiation may be the only treatment needed. For more advanced cancers, radiation may be combined with surgery and chemotherapy and certain targeted drug therapies that have fewer side effects than chemotherapy and that take advantage of defects in cancer cells that fuel their growth.

Do you know what is the recent dangerous disease in the world? It is skin cancer which spread dramatically in some regions. Researchers make some statistics about skin cancer new cases and the deaths. [According to the Saudi Cancer Registry in 2009 there was about 322 new cases suffered from skin cancer which estimated 3.3% from all cancer sufferers in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, it is in the list of the most spread ten cancers in Saudi Arabia. ]

Cancer of the head and neck are diagnosed each year with a high incidence of laryngeal cancer. Maddox and Davies (2012) reported that, “The estimated number of Laryngectomies performed in 1997 was 5,038, this number dropped steadily to a low of 2,966 in 2006 and then rose slightly in 2008 to 3,414”.Men and women both seek surgery to alleviate the problem. Total laryngectomy is undertaken in as many as 50% of patients with a relative survival rate of 52% with no significant

Salivary gland tumors are a morphologically diverse group of neoplasms, which may present considerable diagnostic and management challenges for the pathologist and surgeon. Salivary gland tumors are rare with an overall incidence in the western world of about 2.5 to 3.0 per 100,000 per year. About 80% of all lesions are benign; hence salivary malignancies are particularly rare, comprising less than 0.5% of all malignancies and about 5% of cancers in the head and neck. (1)

Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases in 2012.2 The amount of new cases is expected to rise by about 70% over the next 2 decades. Cancer which causes nearly 1 in 6 deaths, is the second leading cause of death globally, and was responsible for 8.8 million deaths in 2015. Approximately 70% of deaths from cancer occur in low- and middle-income countries. In 2012 about 14.1 million new cases of cancer occurred globally (not including skin cancer other than melanoma).3 The most common types of cancer in males are lung cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and stomach cancer.