Selective Elective Neck Dissection Study

Title  The role of selective neck dissection used electively in patients with early oral squamous cell carcinoma (tumour stage T1 and T2) and no clinical evidence of lymph node metastases in the neck
Acronym  SEND
Study Type Multi-Centre Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial
Status  In follow up
Funding  Cancer Research UK, Saving Faces – The Facial Surgery Research Foundation & Elliott Bernerd
Ethics NRES Committee North East – Northern & Yorkshire (ref: 06/MRE03/69)

HEADLINE NEWS 17/10/2019: The findings of this study are now published in The British Journal of Cancer. More information can be found on the Saving Faces website here: https://savingfaces.co.uk/research-news/first-national-mouth-cancer-study-published/

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Survivorship Study

Title of study Psychosocial factors associated with quality of life and impact of cancer in long-term head and neck cancer survivors
Short title
Quality of life in head and neck cancer survivors
Study Type Retrospective Cohort Study
Status  Completed
Funding  Saving Faces – The Facial Surgery Research Foundation
Ethics Office for Research Ethics Committees Northern Ireland (ORECNI) – REC reference: 15/NI/0009

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