Swallowing
Swallowing function can be affected following surgery and radiotherapy treatment. Swallowing is a complex mechanism that can breakdown in many ways. The degree to which it is affected depends on where your surgery is and whether you have additional treatments such as radiotherapy. The Speech and language Therapist will meet you at the time of your surgery and assess any difficulties and offer techniques that will help you through your treatment.
Kapitex produce the Kapi-cup, Dysphagia cup, Provale cup, Maroon Spoon, Novo cup and these might be helpful to you. Please ask for advice.
How will cancer affect my life?
We have compiled over 800 individual questionnaires completed by our patients over the last 10 years to allow users to perform a customisable search to help predict what their quality of life might be like after surgery / radiotherapy. Use the link below to access this part of our site.
Patient Audio Stories
Some of our previous patients have kindly provided audio storeis. these give fantastic insights into their own personal struggle with head and neck cancer and we hope that you will find them inspiring.
