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Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
Release date: March 30, 2007
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Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale Cancer Center to hold free screening for head and neck cancers April 20
NEW HAVEN — The Yale-New Haven Hospital ear, nose and throat (ENT) department and the Yale Cancer Center will hold a public screening for head and neck cancers on Friday, April 20, 1-4 p.m., at the Yale Physician’s Building, 800 Howard Avenue, 4th floor, New Haven.
“We are urging people who may have certain symptoms to make an appointment for this important screening,” said Clarence Sasaki, M.D., chief of otolaryngology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. “Although the numbers of people who develop these head and neck cancers are not huge, these diseases are often devastating. This screening is a great way to get a very quick, basic exam by an ENT physician and could be very beneficial. Last year’s event was highly successful and we believe this screening is a tremendous health benefit for the people in our community.”
This is the second annual head and neck cancer screening that YNHH and the Yale Cancer Center have offered the public. Last year, over 200 people registered. Fifty patients were referred for follow-up exams and three for immediate evaluation for suspected cancer.
Dr. Sasaki urges people who have a history of these symptoms to be screened:
- Family or personal history of smoking
- Sore throat that persists for more than six weeks
- Hoarseness lastig longer than three weeks
- Presence of blood in their saliva or sputum
The screening is named in honor of Dr. John Joe, an extraordinarily skilled head and neck cancer surgeon here at Yale-New Haven Hospital who died in August 2006. The screening will bear his name, as treating patients to memorialize the compassion and warmth with which Dr. Joe treated his patients.
About 40,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with head and neck cancer, which can attack the nose, sinuses, ears, throat, larynx, thyroid, saliva glands and the lymph nodes in the neck.
To register for the free screening, please call (203) 688-2000. Walk-ins are welcome and parking validation will be available.
Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, with 201 of Yale-New Haven’s 944 beds, offers the region’s largest and most comprehensive array of maternity and pediatric services, including newborn special care and maternal special care units, a 19-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric surgery center and a pediatric clinical research unit.
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Last revised: April 3, 2007 (dh)
