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Head and Neck Cancer Types
Hypopharyngeal Cancer
Laryngeal Cancer (Voice Box Cancer)
Mouth Cancer (Oral Cancer, Tongue, Gum, Jaw)
Nasopharyngeal Cancer
Nose Cancer (Nasal, Sinus Cancer)
Oropharyngeal Cancer (Tonsil Cancer)
Salivary Gland Cancer
Skin Cancer (Face, Nose and Lip)
Throat Cancers
Thyroid Cancer
Unknown Primary Cancer
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What is head and neck cancer?
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What tests do I need to have?
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Hypopharyngeal cancer
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Incurable Cancer
Laryngeal Cancer (Voice Box Cancer)
Treatment options
Questions to ask your doctor
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Nose Cancer (Nasal, Sinus Cancer)
Treatment options
Questions to ask
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Nasopharyngeal cancer
Treatment options
Questions to ask
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Mouth Cancer (Oral Cancer, Tongue, Gum, Jaw)
Treatment
Questions to ask
What is oral cancer?
Surgery
Radiation therapy
Chemotherapy
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Oropharyngeal Cancer (Tonsil Cancer)
Treatment options
Questions to ask
What is oropharyngeal cancer
Surgery
Radiation therapy
Chemotherapy
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Salivary gland cancer
Treatment options
Questions to ask
What is salivary gland cancer
Surgery
Radiation therapy
Chemotherapy
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Skin Cancer (Face, Nose and Lip)
Treatment options
Questions to ask
What is skin cancer
Surgery
Radiation therapy
Chemotherapy
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Thyroid cancer
Treatment options
Questions to ask
What is thyroid cancer
Surgery
Radioactive iodine
Radiation therapy and chemotherapy
Follow up care
Supportive Care
Incurable Cancer
Unknown primary cancer
Treatment options
Questions to ask
What is unknown primary cancer
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Incurable Cancer
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Why is head and neck cancer different?
Why is head and neck cancer different?
It’s not just one type of cancer. Head and neck cancer includes more than 10 different cancers that can affect a person’s mouth, tongue, throat, salivary glands, skin or voice box.
Treatment for head and neck cancer can be brutal. It affects a person’s identify unlike any other cancer. It can leave a person unable to speak, it can leave them with devastating facial disfigurements and take away basic abilities that we all take for granted like eating, breathing, speaking, drinking and swallowing.
In the past smoking and alcohol were the most common causes of head and neck cancers typically affecting areas like the mouth, throat and voice box.
Today in Australia many head and neck cancers are due to other causes including HPV – the same virus that causes cervical cancer and which can affect young, otherwise healthy, non-smoking men and women.
The rising incidence of tongue cancer in young, healthy, non-smoking women is unknown.
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