The role of selective neck dissection in pathological N1 squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of selective neck dissection (SND) in stage pN1 head and neck cancers.

Patients And Methods: Patients who underwent neck dissection due to squamous cell carcinoma of oral cavity, larynx, oro-hypopharynx were evaluated retrospectively. Sixty-one patients diagnosed with pathological N1 by neck dissection were included in the study.

[Disclosure of the diagnosis to the patient with head and neck cancer].

Objectives: The goal of this study was to elicit information on the feelings and thoughts of head and neck cancer patients at the time of disclosure of the diagnosis and to guide the physicians to a better communication with similar patients, taking into consideration general tendencies and the opinion of individual patients.

Patients And Methods: A questionnaire-based, retrospective study was performed between April 2005 and 2006, including 34 patients (26 males 8 females; mean age 52 years; range 19 to 80 years) with head and neck cancer, who had undergone surgery as primary treatment, had been followed-up for at least two years, and were disease-free at the time of the study. A 30-item questionnaire was administered, consisting of multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.