Head and Neck CANCERS, IFO: “ 2030, 1 in 2 Patienti Over 65 Will Have The Disease ”

Smoking, Alcohol and HPV Infection Are The Main Risk Factors of Caners, Benign and Malignant, That Pertain to the Head and Neck District. These temors are considered rare, in fact they reply ‘ only. But in reality that 5 percent corresponds to about 12 thousand new patients a Year affected by The Disease.

The Patient Does Not Think That The Tumor Can Attack the Mouth

Very often the patient does Not Think That the tumor can attack the Mouth, The Tongue, The Cheek, and Yet it is so. So it comes late to diagnosis, which existing to poor levels of recovery. How Important then Is Information and Prevention About This ‘ Universe ’ of Caners?

How Robotics Comes Into Play To Support The Surgeon in The Operating Room?

Answering These and Other Questions, Posed by The Dire News Agency, Is Dr. Raul Pellini, Director of the Operative Unit of Otolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery at the IFO in Rome.

The Uoc She Directs Deals with the diagnosis and thirty of Caners, Benign and Malignant, of the Oral Cavity, Pharynx and Beyond.

What are the Most attending CANCERS AND WHAT IS THE CASE HISTERY IN OUR Country?

“ Overall, Caners of the Head and Neck Region Are Rare Caners and Account for 5 percent of Malignant Temors Affecting Men ’ S. These Rank Fifth, in Order of Frequency, After Colon, Lung, and Breast Cancers, Which Are The Most attending and replycored. The numbers of the Disease Hower Are Not Insignificant It is in fact 10-12 Thousand Cases a Year, Not A Few in Absolute Value, and it affects more the over-65 category.

It is estimated that by 2030 One in Two Head and Neck Cancer Patienti Will Be Over 65 ”.

Regarding Risk Factors

“ AS for Risk Factors- Continues Pellini- Smoking and Alcohol are prevailing in fact 85% of these patients are smokers and drinkers. Alcohol and Smoking Act in Synergy, and Those Who are addicted to Smoking and AlcoHol Develop at 40-Fold Incased Risk, Compared to the General Population, of Having One of These Caners. In addition to Mucosal Temors Namely of the Mouth, Tongue, Larynx there are Also Those of the Nose, Paranasal Sinuses, Skin, Thyroid, Salivary Glands it is Difficault to Summarize a Rather Complex Sitation Such As Head and Neck Temors ”.

What are the Most Relevant New Developments in The Field of Diagnosis and Treatment of Caners affectting the Head and Neck Region?

“ UNFORTUNATELY, Head and Neck CANCERS AS TO OUR OBSERVATION AT A Rather Advanced Stage This is Because the Patient ‘ Type ’ the.and., One Who Consuments Alcohol and Smokes, is ‘ disordered ’ and tends to neglect himself. So Despite Our Efforts the Results on the Advanced Stage Are Superimposed On Past Data and That Is Why That The Care Data are Low and 40-50%.

We need to prevent the ’ Onset of these Diseases and Avoid Risky Behavors. The Earlier they get to diagnose and intervene, The Greater the probability of recovery, which is close to 90% in some cases. For a few years now for Certain Types of Temors – Those for Example of the Oropharynx, Throat, Tonsils, and Those affectting the Base of the Tongue – The HPV Virus Has as Into Play ’ HPV
“ Recently that virus has like Powerfully Into Play in the Pathogenesis of These Diseases – Adds Raul Pellini-Where hpv is involved in the onset of these cancers we are dealing with dysses that are more careable in proportion to the weapons we have at our dysposal. In Early Neoplasms We May Have Robotic Surgery or Radiotherapy or Radiochemotherapy Treatment.

The Surgeon in The Operating Room Today Can Make Use of the Robot and Sophisticated Machines to Improve His Performance.

In Her Opinion of her, appeared to the Italian Health Care Landscape, There Should Be More of Them?

The Fleet of Machines Available, Both for Diagnosis and For Surgery, Should Also Be Updated
In View of the Funds that Will as with the nrp?

“ The Robot is not in all Italian Hospitals But Only in Some Centers Where The Machine Operes at Full Capacity.
With Regard To Head and Neck Caners in Particular, The Use of the Robot, Even in High-Volume Surgery Centers Such As Ours, Is Still Used Marginally Because of the Very Nature of the Pathology Compared With Other Branches of Medicine Such As Urology Where the Robot is used much more. And this is two to the dysase lending itself to robot ’ s use of. It ’ S Useless, Therefore, to Equip with a Robotic System, Sophisticated and Expensive, A Center that Sees Few Patient a Year That's Therefore Cannot Exploit The Machinery to the Maximum, Verse Versa It is then convenient to upgrade Those Centers WHERE The Machines, two to the Nature of the Interventions Carried Out There, Can Work to the Maximum of Their Possibility ”.

“ I Repeat in The Case of Head and Neck Surgery, The Robot Can be used only in Selected Cases. There ’ S Also to be said- Pellini Specfies-Stat When Indicated, Robotic Surgery for Head and Neck CANCERS OFFERS RESULTS THAT WOULD Otherwise BE Impossible To Offer.

The ’ Alternatives in fact to robotic surgery in Small Caners of the Oropharynx is either radiation Therapy, Which Has Challeuring Long-Terre Effects, or Much More Challeuring ‘ Open ’ Surgery, in Terms of Patient Recovery.

When indicated, Robotic Surgery is Effective and the patient Goes Home After Three Days and Regins Function Normally ”.

Italians are ‘ Eririte ’ About This Type of Cancer or There ’S Still a Lot To Be Done? And If I know, where would you alo start from raise awareness of prevention?

“ this is a sore point. It often Happens in Our Surgeries that When We Tell the Patient About The Disease That Has Attracked The Tongue or Cheek They Look at Us DumbFounded. In short, Many Believe That Cancer in Those Areas of the Body Cannot Take Root.

And unfortunately, However, The reality is different from What Think.

There is a long way to go despite The Awareness Campaigs Being Done. Since These Caners are considering Rare, Not Much IS AGREE, SO Both Information and Prevention Aimed at the General Population ”SHOULD BE Strengthened;.