Avoiding Complications in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

Summary

The Fifth ENT-UK Head and Neck Consensus Day

A one day national meeting under the auspices of the ENT-UK Head & Neck Group to evaluate, reflect and inform on current practice about the management and prevention of complications - both of surgery and chemoradiotherapy in the head and neck. There will be an opportunity to discuss and attempt to reach a consensus on a number of topics.

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Event information

This conference is for consultants and trainees in otolaryngology, head and neck, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and clinical oncology, and nurses and allied healthcare professionals.

• Programme and printable booking form (PDF)

Topics

• The use of RIG or PEG tubes: proactive or reactive?
• Can we reduce the side effects of radiotherapy with IMRT?
• The prevention and management of osteoradionecrosis
• The management of pharyngeal stenosis
• The prevention of cardiac complications during surgery
• Coding and recording complications: what information will be available to commissioners and your patients?
• The use of pectoralis major flap to reduce fistulae

Course organiser

• Mr Peter Clarke FRCS, Head and Neck Unit, The Royal Marsden

Speakers to include

• Professor David Howard, Professor of Head and Neck Oncology, Imperial College London
• Dr Chris Nutting, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Royal Marsden
• Mr Andrew Parker, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Sheffield
• Mr Cyrus Kerawala, Consultant Maxillofacial / Head and Neck Surgeon, The Royal Marsden
• Mr Ricard Simo, Consultant Otorhinolarynologist Head and Neck Surgeon, Guy’s and St Thomas’

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