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Benjamin Judson, MD, MBA, whose research interests include investigating outcomes and quality in head and neck cancer therapy, has been appointed Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology) at Yale School of Medicine, effective immediately.

While cancer of the throat, back of the tongue, tonsils and soft palate (the location of the uvula), known as oropharyngeal cancer, can be caused by smoking or heavy drinking, HPV also has been linked to it, according to Dr. Saral Mehra, section chief for head and neck and otolaryngology surgery at the Yale School of Medicine.

Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center at Trumbull physicians Michael Cohenuram, MD, Neal Fischbach, MD, David Witt, MD, Sajid Khan, MD, FACS, FSSO, Kevin Du, MD, PhD, and Saral Mehra, MD, MBA, FACS, are highlighted in the 2022 list of Top Doctors in Connecticut Magazine. Published in the magazine’s May issue, the 'Best Doctors' list includes physicians nominated by their peers.

Connecticut Magazine has named 87 Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians to its 2022 Best Doctors guide.

Dr. Ansley Roche shares her thoughts in honor of Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month.

In honor of Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, members of Smilow Cancer Hospital's Head and Neck Cancers Program hosted a Smilow Shares event on New Treatment Advances & Patient Care.

In vivo chronic exposure (12–14 weeks) of murine (C57Bl/6J) hypopharyngeal epithelium to tobacco smoke components (TSC) [N-nitrosamines; 4-(N-Methyl-N-Nitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (0.2 mmol/L), N-nitrosodiethylamine (0.004 mmol/L)], as the sole drinking fluid 5 days per week, along with topically applied (two times/day) bile [deoxycholic acid (0.28 mmol/L)], can accelerate TSC-induced neoplastic process, causing invasive carcinoma, enhancing NFκB activation and inducing a profound overexpression of Il6, Tnf, Stat3, Egfr, Wnt5a, composing an aggressive phenotype. Early assessment of bile components in refluxate of tobacco users can prevent the chronic silent progression of upper aerodigestive tract carcinogenesis. This in vivo model indicates that bile reflux might have an additive effect on the tobacco-smoke N-nitrosamines effect and could be suitable for large-scale studies of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center at Trumbull physicians Michael Cohenuram, MD, Neal Fischbach, MD, David Witt, MD, Sajid Khan, MD, FACS, FSSO, and Saral Mehra, MD, MBA, FACS, are highlighted in the 2021 list of Top Doctors in Connecticut Magazine.

Connecticut Magazine has named 90 Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians to its 2021 Best Doctors guide. Published in the magazine’s June issue, the 'Best Doctors' list consists of more than 1,500 Connecticut physicians from nearly 40 medical specialties.