The University of Arizona Division of Hematology & Oncology opened and closed April, which is National Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, appropriately with a focus on improved head and neck cancer awareness.
On April 4, the UA Cancer Center’s Anna Christensen, senior communications manager, penned a Healthy Dose Blog post for the UA Health Sciences on the topic, “Head and Neck Cancer: An Emerging Men’s Health Epidemic.”
In the blogpost, Division Chief Julie Bauman, MD, MPH, talks about an epidemic of throat cancer emerging in men due to the human papillomavirus (HPV), underscoring the need for HPV vaccines in teens before they become sexually active.
Learn why, at a time when reduced tobacco use should see falling rates, that head and neck cancers are increasing, particularly for men, and how improved vaccination could change that. See this link.
Other recent Health Dose Blogs focus on “Tracking Down the Roots of Childhood–Onset Epilepsy” and “Taking Medications to Heart.”
The UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health also hosted a special seminar April 20, “It Takes a Village: Preventing and Controlling HPV-Related Cancers” with Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Public Health, Alexis Koskan, PhD, as the speaker.
And the UA Cancer Center capped the month of April with a “Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Outreach Educational Event,” April 28, hosted at Banner – University Medicine North, Building 2, from 9-10 a.m., followed by free public cancer screenings from 10 a.m.-noon.
Among participating clinicians were Dr. Bauman, Steven Wang, MD (chair, UA Department of Otolaryngology), Shethal Bearelly, MD (Otolaryngology), and Sun Yi, MD (Radiation Oncology), as well as Margaret Eller, RN, UA Cancer Center head and neck nurse navigator.
Several photos from the event were posted to social media, including the UA Cancer Center’s Facebook (right) and Twitter webpages.
NOTE: On March 21, the UA Cancer and Prevention Control Grand Rounds featured the University of South Florida director, Center for Infection Research in Cancer, and Moffit Cancer Center's Anna R. Giuliano, PhD, for a talk, "HPV Infection and Disease Among Men — The Path to HPV-Related Disease Elimination." View the video here.
ALSO SEE:
“UA Cancer Center, Banner – University Medicine to Observe Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month with Free Presentation, Screenings, April 28” | Posted March 16, 2018
“National Cancer Institute Official Presents on HPV-Associated Cancers at Collaborative Grand Rounds” | Posted Feb. 28, 2018
“HPV, Throat Cancer, Need for Vaccine Advocates Big Part of UA Cancer Center Lecture at the J” | Posted March 3, 2017
“Male Perceptions of HPV Explored in Study by UA Researcher” | Posted Dec. 1, 2016
“New Chief of Hematology and Oncology at UA Health Sciences, a Noted Head and Neck Cancer Specialist, Looks Forward to ‘Homecoming’” | Posted Aug. 29, 2016