Head and Neck Treatments & Services

The multispecialty team in the Head & Neck Program can offer your patients comprehensive services, including:

• Interventional Pain Medicine
• Medical Oncology
• Nutrition Consults
• Pathology
• Radiation Oncology
• Radiology, with Specialist Readings
• Screening, Diagnosis & Staging
• Speech Pathology & Therapy
• Surgery
• Supportive Care

Different types of treatment and technology are available for patients with cancers of the head and neck. Treatment options available: 

• Chemotherapy
  • Oral chemotherapy drugs
  • Systemic chemotherapy
  • Targeted drug therapy
  • Immunotherapy
  • Phase I and II new drug trials
• Cryotherapy
• Diagnostic Services
  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy
  • Ultrasound-guided biopsies
• Pain Management
• Radiation Therapy
  • Brachytherapy
  • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
  • Stereotactic radiation therapy
  • Image-guided radiation therapy
  • Motion management with 4D CT & 4D PET scan and CT, along with respiratory gating
• Radiology
  • PET (positron emission tomography) scans
  • High-resolution CT (computed tomography) scans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Speech & Swallowing Rehabilitation
• Surgery
  • Minimally invasive and robotic surgery
  • Endoscopic surgery
  • Image-guided surgery
  • Reconstructive head and neck surgery
  • Plastic surgery
  • Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
• Reconstructive Progressive Care Unit - We recognize that these patients require a heightened level of nursing care that cannot be accommodated on the medical/surgical units but also do not require ICU level care.