The School of Dentistry earned the first National Institutes of Health grant under its new Center for Pain Therapeutics and Addiction Research, addressing pain in patients with head and neck carcinoma.

Dental care is crucial for cancer patients and survivors to help reduce complications, improve treatment tolerance and enhance overall quality of life, according to oral medicine specialist Tiffany Tavares, DDS, DMSc.

Cardiothoracic surgery is considered the most effective treatment for early-stage lung cancer because it offers the greatest likelihood of a cure.  

The robotic method is a safer and more effective way to remove tumors.