September News 2023

September has seen a Domain Lodge meeting on nutrition for head and neck cancer patients and our Facebook group clocking over 700 members. Unfortunately this went down to 680 when I made a long overdue foray through the list to remove overseas members who had not been...

August News 2023

Approximately 35 % of head and neck cancers are caused by the HPV virus. For WHNCD on July 27 we interviewed Wellington surgeon Swee Tan about the urgent need to get more of our young ones vaccinated.  See what he has to say in the video below. ...

July News 2023

Our Domain Lodge meeting on the 5th of July showed the usual camaraderie and information sharing that people affected by head and neck cancer are good at. We talked about the deep thirst and discomfort experienced by patients having reconstructive surgery. About how...

Difficult path to diagnosis

My story is that for around a year before my diagnosis in May 2017, my upper mouth was painful, reddened and despite visits to dentists and specialist dentist (and a biopsy in 2015) the answer was “candida, and you need to clean better behind that bridge”…. I pushed...