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Yale-New Haven’s ‘Checkup from the Neck Up’ to screen for cancer
Michael Maze makes his living with his voice, so a tumor running from his ear to near his shoulder was particularly frightening.
He was a smoker, a major cause of the disease, but that had nothing to do with it. He got head and neck cancer from a virus. To detect head and neck cancers, Yale-New Haven Hospital will hold a free screening this week, “Checkup from the Neck Up,” that takes only five minutes.