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Connecticut Magazine has named 77 Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven physicians and surgeons to its 2018 Best Doctors guide. Published in the magazine's April issue, the Best Doctors list consists of 779 Connecticut physicians from 78 medical specialties.

Smilow Cancer Hospital has opened a multidisciplinary head and neck cancer clinic, the first of its kind in Fairfield County, at Yale New Haven Health’s Park Avenue Medical Center in Trumbull. The clinic coordinates and streamlines care for the convenience of patients, according to Dr. Heather Osborn. A Yale Medicine head and neck surgeon, Osborn is teaming with radiation oncologist Dr. Kirtesh Patel and medical oncologist Dr. Harold Tara to create a personalized treatment plan for each patient.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Douglas Hildrew to the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Surgery. Dr. Hildrew joined the Department as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Otolaryngology.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Heather Osborn to the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Surgery. Dr. Osborn joined the Department as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Otolaryngology.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Yan Ho Lee to the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Surgery. Dr. Lee joined the Department as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Otolaryngology.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Cecelia Helwig to the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Surgery. Dr. Helwig joined the Department as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Otolaryngology.

As an increasing variety of treatments for patients with head and neck cancer become available, surgical oncologists are also exploring more minimally invasive approaches to lower associated adverse events and, overall, improve patient outcomes. “If we could incorporate surgery, either endoscopic laser surgery or transoral robotic surgery, in order to minimize or reduce the treatments that might have side effects, that is going to be beneficial,” states Benjamin L. Judson, MD.

Connecticut Magazine’s 2017 “Top Docs” list includes 67 Yale Medicine physicians, who were selected based on a survey of their peers.

Radiotherapy alone is often used to treat early-stage glottic cancer (ESGC), a cancer of the vocal chords, however, the optimal radiation treatment schedule remains unknown.