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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Surviving Head and Neck Cancer
Treatment of advanced head and neck cancer requires close collaborations between several health care services. The team at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center provides a multidisciplinary approach that provides better outcomes.
The UConn Heath multi-disciplinary head and neck cancer team.
On the first morning of Tiffany Patchell’s visit with her dad in Texas in late 2018, she awoke with what felt like a horrible ear infection. Upon returning to Connecticut several days later she visited an urgent care clinic where she was diagnosed with an ear infection and prescribed antibiotics. Her ear continued to bother her and she followed up every few months at the urgent care. The pain then started to extend from her right ear to the right side of her throat and she couldn’t swallow without feeling pain or burning.