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Helping Patients Eat and Drink and Live More Confidently For many people, finishing treatment for head and neck cancer is a huge milestone. But for some, recovery brings new challenges that can have a lasting impact on everyday life. One of the most common is dysphagia – difficulty swallowing. It can make eating and drinking stressful, affect confidence in social situations, and increase the risk of food or drink entering the airway (known as aspiration). Many people also experience a weak cough, making it harder to clear saliva and mucus from their throat and chest. Together, these problems can affect

Trends in Head and Neck Cancer Incidence               Data from England(1) and Scotland (2) show clearly the two significant trends within HNC incidence according to tumour site: the increase in oropharyngeal cancer (caused by  HPV) to become the most common head and neck cancer; and the decrease in laryngeal cancer (through reduced smoking).  English data also shows that oropharyngeal cancer, although mostly caused by HPV, shares a similar geographic pattern of incidence to other head and neck cancers, with a relationship to  deprivation. How low laryngeal cancer rates will go remains unknown, as does

UK Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Guidelines- lay summary for non-clinicians Jarrod recently co-wrote this lay summary of the main Head and Neck Cancer Guidelines that he co-edited earlier this year. This is intended to be a useful guide for commissioners, managers and administrators in this highly complex area. Patients and patient support groups might find it useful also, although it is not written with the intention of being a patient information resource primarily. UK Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Guidelines – lay summary for non-clinicians

Head and Neck Cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines, Sixth Edition The 6th edition is finally out there and available! It’s been quite some journey and thanks to all the contributors and publishers (Cambridge University Press- like many guidelines, its a journey supplement-Journal of Laryngology and Otology)   Head and Neck Cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines, Sixth Edition https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215123001615