HANOT - Head and Neck Oncology Team

Welcome to the Southern Illinois University Cancer Institute’s HANOT. Our mission is to improve the outcome of patients with Head and Neck Surgery by working as a team to optimize patient care, make new discoveries, and educate health care providers.

The information outlined on our web site covers the key components of the program, each of which is important in order to achieve our mission.  Our weekly multidisciplinary conference held every Tuesday provides a forum for discussion of Head and Neck Surgery patients and the development of a consensus for their treatment.

HANOT has worked together to create this multidisciplinary clinic to provide the best approach to cancer care.

During a patient’s visit, a head and neck surgeon, medical oncologist and radiation oncologist work together to determine the most current and appropriate treatment for the patient. 

Other specialists who work together to provide services include pathologists, radiologists, oral surgeons, dentists, social workers, dieticians and nurses.

Free Head and Neck Cancer Screenings

If you have one or more of the following risk factors, take 5 minutes and get screened by a physician for head and neck cancer. It is quick and painless.

Get screened if you:

• Smoke or chew tobacco or consume alcohol regularly
  
• Have a persistent hoarseness, sore throat, pain or difficulty swallowing or ear pain - with any of these lasting longer than 3 weeks.
  
• A lump in the neck
  
• Have a family history of head and neck cancer
  

Call Pam at 545-6150 weekdays between 8 a.m and 4:30 p.m. to register
The screenings will be held:

Monday, April 12 – 4 to 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 17 – 9 a.m. to noon
SIU Otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) – Head and Neck Surgery Clinic
St. John’s Pavilion
301 N. 8th Street – 5th floor