Induction Chemotherapy for Head and Neck SCC

Case presentation

59M, previously healthy. Heavy smoker, quit a couple of months ago.

• 6 weeks of progressive facial pain.
• Seen by local doctors, given antibiotics for a presumed sinus infection.
• Purulent drainage.
• Dentures stopped fitting.
• Face started to go numb.
• Admitted, biopsied.
• Nasopharyngeal SCC, nonkeratinizing, discharged home.