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Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Lab
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A lab devoted to the care and research of diseases from the neck up, from the ears, nose, and throat to head and neck cancer.
AboutAbout the lab
Medicine that supports eating, speaking, and hearing
The otolaryngology–head and neck surgery lab treats and researches diseases of the ears, nose, throat, and neck.
Its scope extends beyond the ears and nose to the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, salivary glands, and thyroid.
These are regions involved in functions essential to human life, such as eating, speaking, and hearing.
The lab conducts basic and clinical research and aims to apply the results in daily patient care.
Key terms
- Head and neck
- The region from the neck up, excluding the brain and eyeballs. It includes the mouth, throat, nose, ears, and salivary glands.
- Superselective intra-arterial chemotherapy
- A treatment in which a catheter is advanced into the thin artery that supplies the cancer, and anticancer drugs are delivered directly through it.
- HER2
- A protein involved in cell proliferation. Molecularly targeted drugs exist that specifically target it.
NewsLab news
The lab held an information session for medical students and junior residents
Assistant Professor Suzuki received the ISIAN2024 Abstract Grant Award
ResearchResearch themes
Covering the region from the neck up, excluding the brain and eyeballs, the lab studies cancer, allergies, dizziness, hearing loss, and more from both basic and clinical angles. For head and neck cancer, it works on treatments that cure without surgery and on new drug therapies.
*Illustrative imageSuperselective intra-arterial chemotherapy for head and neck cancer
The lab studies a treatment, mainly for maxillary sinus cancer, in which anticancer drugs are delivered through a catheter placed in the artery that feeds the tumor and are combined with radiotherapy. Aiming for recognition as a standard treatment, it conducts multicenter clinical trials with university hospitals and cancer centers across Japan.
*Illustrative imageNew drug therapies for salivary gland cancer
In collaboration with medical oncology, the lab studies drug therapy using molecularly targeted drugs aimed at HER2, a protein involved in the proliferation of salivary gland cancer cells.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, staff physicians and residents, graduate students, visiting professors, and speech-language pathologists. Physicians from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Hokkaido University Hospital also help supervise.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkihiro Honma
- Associate Professor (Clinical Professor)Yuji Nakamaru
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Kano
- LecturerKeishi Fujiwara
- LecturerShinya Morita
- LecturerMasanobu Suzuki
- Assistant Professor (Clinical Lecturer)Nayuta Tsushima
- Assistant ProfessorShogo Kimura
- Assistant ProfessorHiroshi Idogawa
- Project Assistant ProfessorKimiko Hoshino
- Project Assistant ProfessorRyosuke Watanabe
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Normal Tympanic Membrane Chorda Tympani Nerve Visible” Michael Hawke MD / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Superselective intra-arterial chemotherapy for head and neck cancer: “CT scan of the paranasal sinuses 138” Wilfredor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New drug therapies for salivary gland cancer: “Salivary duct carcinoma - intermed mag” Nephron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Immunobiology Lab): “T Regulatory Cells ( )” NIAID / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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