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PEG tubes are commonly used to provide nutritional support to patients with head and neck cancer. PEG insertions are typically carried out by gastroenterologists, but also otorhinolaryngologist - head and neck surgeons perform the procedure in some countries. Prospective studies on PEG tube placements in an ORL - HNS service are lacking. The investigators aim was to prospectively evaluate the preformance of ORL - HN surgeons in PEG tube insertions, and analyze the time gains and cost effectiveness achieved of the independency from other specialities.
This study investigates the feasibility of using 3D-Printing to manufacture masks used to immobilize patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment for tumors affecting the head and neck.
Patient satisfaction with healthcare is increasingly being utilized as a metric to reflect provider and hospital quality of care. Furthermore, at the core of a healthcare team and healthcare system is the desire to provide patients with the best possible care in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. Providers have the duty to identify areas of needed improvement within the domains of treatment. An area of need that is ubiquitous within medicine is pain control; in this case acute postoperative pain control is the targeted condition. Studies have already shown that better control of acute postoperative pain leads to shortened hospital stays, reduced hospital costs and patient morbidity, improved patient satisfaction and a reduced likelihood of developing chronic pain. Research within the field of pain management has definitively revealed that a combination of different medication regimens can control acute postoperative pain better than narcotics alone. In particular, the medication gabapentin has been shown to improve acute postop pain in many kinds of surgical settings, and it is a safe medication with arguably fewer side effects than narcotics. The investigators know that certain groups of post surgical otolaryngology patients can be at risk for high levels of postoperative pain. Given all of this information, physicians have a responsibility to utilize medications such as gabapentin to do a better job of controlling patient's pain. This investigation is a quality improvement project designed to elucidate the benefits of gabapentin in pain management in patients undergoing surgery of the head and neck mucosal surfaces. It will provide much needed data in an understudied population and ultimately will improve the practice of pain management, patient satisfaction and quality of care delivered in the Barnes otolaryngology department.
Compared to IMRT, PBRT is thought to give less radiation exposure to the surrounding healthy tissues. It is possible that side effect rates with PBRT will be lower or the same compared to IMRT, but this has not been well studied to date. Although both of these radiation therapies have been used in the past to treat head and neck cancer, this research study will compare the effects of these two different radiation treatment modalities with each other to see whether PBRT is better, the same or worse than IMRT.
The role of postoperative concurrent chemotherapy (CCT) has not been established for salivary gland tumors (SGTs). This prospective study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility and safety of customized CCT regimens based on the gene targets of SGTs.
Dose-painting may increase the chance of cure at minimised radiation-induced toxicity in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for primary head and neck cancer. This could also apply for recurrent and second primary head and neck cancers in previously irradiated volumes. This trial (RIDPAINT) investigates the feasibility of FDG-PET guided radiotherapy using IMRT dose-painting by contours for patients with recurrent and second primary head and neck cancer.
Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous cell carcinoma often combines chemoradiotherapy when organ has to be preserved or when surgery is not indicated. The loco-regional failure is about 30%. Then salvage surgery is the only chance for patients to survive but the overall survival rate is only 29% at 24 months. This prognostic is bad because of poor local control which is non-optimized by a complementary radiotherapy and negative exeresis margins. Currently, there is no intraoperative technique to better visualize the tumor limits in real time. With fluorescence techniques, an accurate mapping of tumor extension can be considered. Recently, Atallah et al. (2015) demonstrated the use of fluorescence during a head and neck surgery in mice, as a tool allowing for better surgical margins. Digonnet et al (2015) found a tumor fragment after an injection of indocyanine green (ICG) intravenously in salvage surgery for patient with head and neck cancer. The ability of ICG to detect a surgical margin positive intraoperatively has never be evaluated in irradiated area. The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the interest of fluorescence in salvage surgery for recurrence of head and neck cancer in irradiated area.
This research study is studying nivolumab, an investigational drug, in combination with ipilimumab, also an investigational drug, as a possible treatment for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the oral cavity. The following drugs are involved in this study: - Nivolumab (Opdivo™) - Ipilimumab (Yervoy™)
Substantial progress has been made in the treatment of cancer through the use of targeted therapies, but what works for one patient might not work for another patient. Certain drugs are now being developed that target specific molecules in the body that are believed to be part of the disease. Biomarkers are specific characteristics of the cancer that may help provide prognostic information (e.g. how well patients will be regardless of the treatments given) or help predict sensitivity or resistance to a specific treatment. The study will collect archival tumor samples (previously collected biopsy or surgical tumor samples) to provide biomarker data about a patient's cancer, which may help their physicians to identify which clinical trials of new drug treatments may be most appropriate for the patient in the future and may also guide the use of approved treatments that may potentially benefit the patient. Another goal of this study is to develop a province-wide registry of targeted gene sequencing testing results that will be made available to cancer researchers. Additional tumour tissue and blood samples collected from all study participants will also be stored in a biobank at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research for future research. The study will also look at linking data from this study to other health care databases to further collect information about the health care the patients received, including medical tests, clinic visits, or procedures both before and after participating in this study. Having more information about patient health to relate to the DNA sequences may provide new insights into cancer and its treatment.