Summary: <p><strong>Awesome and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this video on Innovations in radiation therapy for head and neck cancer patients and it's one of a series of videos all about Innovations to improve quality of life and to improve survival and these videos are hosted by Saint Vincent's Hospital Sydney and the Kinghorn Cancer Center as I said my name is Julie and seven years ago I was treated for stage 4 oropharyngeal and that's a cancer in my tonsils tongue and throat and that's an example of a head and neck cancer and and I'm here today I was treated with radiation and chemo our purpose is to raise awareness about head and neck cancer and also to give you high quality evidence-based information and I'd like to acknowledge that we're Broadcasting sting to you today on Aboriginal land the land of the gadigal people of the eora nation and to pay my respects to Elders past and present and to emerging leaders and I want to acknowledge that Aboriginal people and some Torres Strait Islander a disproportionately affected by the head and neck cancers that we're talking about in this video so our focus is radiation therapy and I've got a radiation oncologist a dietitian and a speech pathologist and we'll tell you about what's the good news about what's improving our survival and lessening the side effects and also what's on the horizon hi I'm hands Eve from Camden South or soon 2011 and 2013 I had surgeries and extensive radiations to my track to all the surgeons oncologists and nurses to you I'm forever grateful and thank you for saving my life and making...</strong></p>
