Head & Neck Program
Overview
GSRO's Head-and-Neck Program specializes in providing state-of-the-art radiation therapy for patients with head-and-neck cancers, including complex forms of these diseases.
As members of this highly specialized team, our role is to integrate today's advanced radiation therapies into each patient's treatment plan, which often begins with surgery and may involve chemotherapy. We treat the complete range of head-and-neck cancers and other diseases, including:
- Cancers of the oral cavity, oropharynx, nasopharynx, larynx, and hypopharynx
- Nasal cavity and paranasal sinus cancers
- Skull base tumors
- Thyroid cancers
- Major and minor salivary glands tumors, malignant and benign
- Skin cancers affecting the eye, face, ear, and scalp
- Cancers of the orbit and lacrimal system
- Rare and complex tumors (e.g. adenoid cystic carcinoma, esthesioneuroblastoma, and sinonasal carcinoma)
Personalized & Comprehensive Care
In the highly specialized Lung & Thoracic Program at Garden State Radiation Oncology, our radiation oncologist works side-by-side with your entire cancer treatment team. These world-class cancer specialists may include health care providers, including medical oncologists and surgeons, to meet the needs of each and every one of our patients.
Improving Patient Outcomes
To provide the best treatments for our patients, we understand it’s not just about the radiation machines. It's about advanced radiation technologies, plus the people who bring them to our patients.
- Adaptive radiation therapy (ART): To improve precision of radiation delivery, ART has been in use clinically in recent years. Adaptive plans which accommodate patient-specific changes that are unaccounted for in initial plan are generated during treatment.
- Imaging-guided radiation therapy (IGRT): In all our treatment machines, cone-beam CT modes are integrated with automated repositioning and motion management visualization software. The 3-dimensional cone-beam CT images allow tumor sites to be pinpointed, adjust patient positioning when necessary, and complete a treatment - all within the standard treatment time slot.
- 4D CT scanning: This imaging technology breakthrough enables us to plan more precise dosing of tumors in the head-and-neck region by accounting for tumor motion associated with breathing and swallowing.