Head and neck cancer affects the nose, mouth, lips, gums, tongue, throat, and voice box in over 50,000 people in the US each year. The main causes are smoking and tobacco, as well as alcohol use and HPV infection. Symptoms include lumps in the neck or throat, persistent sore throat, trouble swallowing, unexplained weight loss, and frequent coughing. Treatment involves surgery to remove the cancer, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of these. Prevention through smoking cessation and screening are key to curing cancer.

1. Head and Neck Cancer
By
Hanu Pratap

2. What is Head and Neck Cancer ?
• Cancer of the nose, mouth, lips, gums,
tongue, throat, voice box and other sites
• Affects 50,000 people in the US each year
• Curable 50% of the time

3. What causes head and neck
cancer?
1) Smoking
2) Smoking
3) Tobacco and smoking
4) Alcohol
5) sexually transmitted virus (HPV 16),
Environmental, hereditary

4. Symptoms to know head and
neck cancer
• A Lump in the nose , neck or throat.
• A Persistent sore throat.
• Trouble Swallowing (Dysphagia).
• Unexplained weight loss.
• Frequent Coughing.

5. How To Treat Head and Neck
Cancer ?
• Find it, usually late
-over 80% of tumors are late stage.
• Surgery (cut it out).
• Radiation (burn it).
• Chemotherapy (selective poisoning).
• Combine the above.

6. The Key to Curing Cancer
• Stop all smoking (causes more cancer
deaths than any other factor)
• Wait 30 years (time required for relative
risk of lung cancer to return to 1 after
smoking cessation)
• Ignore cancers due to:
– Low level exposures
– Multifactorial genetic predisposition
– Stochastic phenomena

7. Other Ways to Cure Cancer
• Prevention
– definition of more subtle genetic and environmental
risk factors
• Targeted Therapy
– Molecular and otherwise
• Screening
– Molecular Screening for early disease
– Genetic screening for inherited cancer susceptibility
– Conventional screening for non-genetic risk factors
• Pap smear, colonoscopy, etc

8. Thanks for your
attention