STROCSS 2021: Strengthening the reporting of cohort, cross-sectional and case-control studies in surgery.

Introduction: Strengthening The Reporting Of Cohort Studies in Surgery (STROCSS) guidelines were developed in 2017 in order to improve the reporting quality of observational studies in surgery and updated in 2019. In order to maintain relevance and continue upholding good reporting quality among observational studies in surgery, we aimed to update STROCSS 2019 guidelines.

Methods: A STROCSS 2021 steering group was formed to come up with proposals to update STROCSS 2019 guidelines.

Management principles of head and neck cancers during pregnancy: a review and case series.

Head and neck cancers during pregnancy are rising in incidence. Clinicians need to be aware of the principles of managing these cases. This paper is a review of the literature of head and neck cancers during pregnancy with a short case series of six non-thyroid pregnancy-associated cancers treated by a head and neck oncology surgeon.

Multiple primary tumors in patients diagnosed with hypopharyngeal cancer.

Objective: There have been few series to report on the incidence of multiple primary tumors associated with hypopharyngeal cancer. A unique consecutive patient group in a closed community who were treated by a single surgeon was available. The incidence and effect of multiple primary tumors were unknown.