The head and neck program at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center serves as a regional treatment center and offers comprehensive care for patients with all types and stages of head and neck tumors, both benign and malignant. Through screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment and long-term follow up, the interdisciplinary team of physicians and health care providers are able to provide individualized treatment plans and access to the most advanced treatments possible.

Diseases treated at Ellis Fischel
Eye/Ear cancer
Laryngeal cancer
Thyroid cancer
Endocrine cancer
Esophageal cancer
Oral cancers (mouth, tongue and lips)
Salivary gland tumor
Pharyngeal cancer (throat)
Sarcomas
Nose and paranasal sinus tumors
Skin cancer of the head and neck
Brain cancer (skull base tumors)

Services provided

• Minimally invasive surgery
• Mohs micrographic surgery
• Topical therapy
• Laser therapy
• Cryotherapy
• Injection Therapy
• Biopsies
• Wide local excisions
• Hormonal suppression therapy
• Radioactive Iodine therapy
• Radiation therapy
• Stereotactic radiosurgery
• Chemotherapy/Biotherapy
• Clinical trials
• Swallow studies
• Speech therapy

The clinical team
Tamara Hopkins, MD - medical oncologist
Jeff Jorgensen, MD - otolaryngologist
Uzma Khan, MD - endocrinologist
Karen Kubas, RD, LD - registered dietician
Norman Litofsky, MD - neurologist
Gregory Renner, MD - otolaryngologist
Stephen Westgate, MD - radiation oncologist
Mike Wheeler - speech pathologist
Robert Zitsch, MD - otolaryngologist

For more information on the clinical team or to make an appointment, please call (573) 882-8445.