Ahmedabad Head & Neck Cancer Treatment

Head and Neck Cancer Treatment in Ahmedabad

Zanish Cancer Hospital is one of the Ahmedabad's most experienced head and neck cancer centers. Our surgeons provide comprehensive and personalized care in a supportive, compassionate environment.

We are experts in diagnosing, staging and treating all types of head and neck cancers, from common and rare.

With more than 10 years of experience, Dr. Nishant Sanghavi is one of the leading and qualified Head and Neck cancer surgeons in Ahmedabad by using advanced technologies in the field of cancer surgeries. He founded Zanish Cancer Hospital in Ahmedabad with the mission of providing treatment and surgery for head and neck cancer.

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Head and Neck Cancer Therapy in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The overall focus is to improve patient’s quality of life and preserving functions such as swallowing, speech, taste, and hearing. If these cancers are diagnosed early they are treatable.

Radiation can be added with surgery if other risk factors of cancer are identified.

In very advanced cancer cases when it has spread near the brain or spread to other parts of the body. At this stage quality of life can be improved with palliative radiation therapy with chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Surgery

If the surgery becomes an ultimate option for a patient, the whole tumor and the lymph nodes are removed. Depends on the affected area, a wide excision take place in some cases as a rim or segment of the jaw. At Zanish head and neck cancer hospital we are equipped with advanced minimally invasive endoscopic instrumentation laser with a microscope for vocal cord surgery. Dr Nishant Sanghvi is specialist of head and neck cancer doctor in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy is the entail use of high energy X-ray to kill cancer cells. Source of radiation may be from a machine outside the body (external beam radiotherapy) or radioactive materials inserted into the affective organ.

Chemo-Radiation

Many of the cases of H&N cancer demands combination of chemotherapy and radiation. These therapies improve the cure rates and conserve the organ affected by the disease. Combination of these therapies may increase the chance of normal speech and swallow.

Chemotherapy

On the basis of individual needs and suitability H & N cancer requires chemotherapy and biological therapy. Generally, a combination of drugs is used. The oncologist also decides the therapy plan as per the individual case.

Chemotherapy may be combined as:

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy – prior to definitive treatment (surgery)

Adjuvant chemotherapy – following surgery

Chemo-radiotherapy – with radiotherapy

Palliative chemotherapy – in the advanced setting

Chemotherapy works to:

Decrease the chances of recurrence following surgery

Shrink cancer before surgery if it is large to downstage the cancer

Control the disease when it has spread to the other areas of the body

Head and Neck Cancer Treatment in Ahmedabad

What is head and neck cancer?

Symptoms of Head and Neck Cancer

Pharynx

Larynx

Paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity

Salivary glands

Difficulty in chewing, swallowing ,moving jaws or tongue.

Lump or sore, which does not heal

Oral cavity

Pharynx

Larynx

Paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity

Salivary glands

Difficulty in chewing, swallowing ,moving jaws or tongue.

Lump or sore, which does not heal

Oral cavity

Pharynx

Larynx

Paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity

Causes of Head and Neck Cancer

Head and Neck Cancer Therapy in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Surgery

Radiation Therapy

Chemo-Radiation

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy may be combined as:

Chemotherapy works to: