New Throat Cancer Treatments Aim To Reduce Deaths and Preserve Function in 2025 and Beyond

Throat cancer is a form of head and neck cancer. It starts in the throat (known as the pharynx), which includes the tonsils, back of the tongue, voice box (larynx), and the vocal cords.

Some of these areas can be seen when the mouth is wide open and others only by a camera passed through the mouth. Oropharyngeal cancer, involving the tonsils or back of the tongue, is commonly referred to as throat cancer.

The head and neck service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) was founded in 1914, making it one of the first in the United States to specialize in the treatment of head and neck cancers.

Ever since, MSK experts have pioneered innovative ways to treat throat cancer that aim to give people better outcomes while preserving their appearance and the functions of the throat.

“We’re curing more patients so they live longer and better,” says medical oncologist Alan Ho, MD, Chief of the Head and Neck Oncology Service. “How our patients live after treatment is a very close second to curing them in our priorities. It’s just so important.”

Read more here….https://www.mskcc.org/news/new-throat-cancer-treatments-aim-to-reduce-deaths-and-preserve-function-in-2025-and-beyond