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Mayo Clinic doctors are focused on developing cutting-edge diagnostic tests and innovative treatments for people with throat cancer.

The Department of Otolaryngology has a research program dedicated to advancing treatment for throat cancer and other head and neck cancers. Researchers from head and neck surgery, thoracic surgery, radiation oncology, hematology/oncology, immunology, and molecular medicine work together to identify and conduct research studies that will most benefit people.

Learn more about head and neck surgery research at Mayo Clinic.

Throat cancer research is also conducted in coordination with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center receives funding from the National Cancer Institute and is designated as a comprehensive cancer center — recognition for an institution's scientific excellence and multidisciplinary resources focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

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See a list of publications about throat cancer by Mayo Clinic doctors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.

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Research: It's all about patients

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Joseph Sirven, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic: Mayo's mission is about the patient. The patient comes first. So the mission and research here is to advance how we can best help the patient, how to make sure the patient comes first in care. So in many ways, it's a cycle. It can start with as simple as an idea worked on in a laboratory, brought to the patient bedside, and if everything goes right — and let's say it's helpful or beneficial — then brought on as a standard approach. And I think that is one of the unique characteristics of Mayo's approach to research — that patient-centeredness — that really helps to put it in its own spotlight.