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ORACLE Head & Neck Cancer UK

Improving Head and Neck cancer patient outcomes through support of key programmes, raising awareness and addressing growing healthcare inequalities.

All About Head & Neck Cancer

Details what the term head and neck cancer means, patient stories, useful links and more on and the different types within the head and neck group of cancers.

Patients and carers

From self checks to help groups

How to help

However you have been touched by Head and Neck cancer, getting involved can make a big difference in so many ways.

Professionals and researchers

Over the last 20 years Oracle has awarded £8m in research grants supporting early-stage research into Head and Neck cancers

Key Facts

There are approximately 14,000 new head and neck cancer cases in the UK every year

Around 70% of oropharyngeal cancer (a type of throat cancer) are linked to HPV.

More than half of head and neck cancers in the UK are diagnosed late, resulting in poor survival and outcomes.

Cases of head and neck cancer are projected to reach 16,300 a year in the UK by 2040.

Head and neck cancer is the 5th most common cancer in men and the 7th most common overall.

Every day 38 people are diagnosed with Head and Neck cancers in the UK.