Journal Reviews

Head and Neck journal cover image.

Predicting the need for salvage laryngectomy

2 November 2020 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | chemotherapy, head and neck cancer, machine learning, radiation therapy, salvage laryngectomy

The treatment of laryngeal cancer has seen a shift towards organ preservation strategies with non-surgical treatment offering equivalent survival outcomes. Nonetheless, salvage total laryngectomy (SLT) remains an important curative management option in cases of treatment failure or recurrence. The authors...

Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma – slowly getting there

1 January 2019 | | induction chemotherapy, multicenter study, multimodal approach, sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma, sinus cancer

The rarest of the rare, sinonasal tumours form only a small part of the total number of head and neck tumours and undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC) is one of the rarest of this group. There is some data (and some expert...

Honey in the management of mucositis

1 March 2017 | | honey, meta-analysis, mucositis, radio/chemotherapy

This is a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Despite some limitations, they were able to identify that honey could reduce the severity of radio/chemotherapy induced oral mucositis. They acknowledge that the exact aetiology in the effect of honey is not...