Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer: Approach to Staging and Surveillance

Asymptomatic COVID–19 cancer patients incidentally discovered during F18-FDG PET/CT monitoring

“…The cases with head and neck cancers were 2 out 5 positive patients; the risk factors in head and neck cancer patients, like smoking, male gender and age over 40 years-old are also risk factors involved in COVID-19 disease [ 3 , 22 ]. Also, very important from the clinical point of view is the fact that despite the severe lung damage, there were no symptoms, no specific recent changes in the clinical status of these patients and they did not express any other complaints that might be suggestive for the occurrence of another severe disease.…”

Prognostic Impact of Tumor‐Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients

“…1,2 Conventional clinical prognosis of patients with resectable LSCC relies on histopathological assessment of tumor invasion based on the tumor node metastasis (TNM) classification system from American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). 3 Although TNM provides useful information for prognosis, it is rather incomplete since tumor outcome can notably vary among patients within the same TNM stage. Some patients with advanced-stage cancer could enjoy disease-free survival for years, yet for others, early-stage cancer may suffer rapid tumor progression, recurrence, and metastases (local or distant) following complete surgical removal of tumor.…”

Ophiopogonin B induces reactive oxygen species‑dependent apoptosis through the Hippo pathway in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

“…Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection (1). In 2018, there were an estimated 129,079 new cases of NPC and the an estimated 72,987 deaths from NPC worldwide (2).…”