{"id":44311,"date":"2025-06-14T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cca.al\/?p=44311"},"modified":"2025-06-14T18:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:30:31","slug":"anatomy-of-the-head-and-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/?p=44311","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of the Head and Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The images below can help your provider point out where your cancer is and how treatments (like surgery and radiation) will work. Areas that can be affected by head &amp; neck cancers are shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" src=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-30x19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44321 cmsmasters_img cmsmasters-lazyload lazyload\" style=\"width:677px;height:auto\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cca.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-486x300.jpg 486w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-30x19.jpg 30w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/overview-head-and-neck-2-16x10.jpg 16w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-30x16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44323 cmsmasters_img cmsmasters-lazyload lazyload\" style=\"width:677px\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cca.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-1024x553.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-1536x829.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-556x300.jpg 556w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-30x16.jpg 30w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/throat-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-19x10.jpg 19w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1303\" src=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-30x20.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44329 cmsmasters_img cmsmasters-lazyload lazyload\" style=\"width:677px\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cca.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-460x300.jpg 460w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-30x19.jpg 30w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/larynx-in-head-and-neck-cancer-2-15x10.jpg 15w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1184\" src=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-30x18.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44324 cmsmasters_img cmsmasters-lazyload lazyload\" style=\"width:677px\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cca.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-1536x909.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-507x300.jpg 507w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-30x19.jpg 30w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mouth-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-17x10.jpg 17w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1648\" src=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-30x25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44325 cmsmasters_img cmsmasters-lazyload lazyload\" style=\"width:677px\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cca.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-1536x1266.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-364x300.jpg 364w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-30x25.jpg 30w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinuses-in-head-and-neck-cancer-1-12x10.jpg 12w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44326 cmsmasters_img cmsmasters-lazyload lazyload\" style=\"width:677px\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cca.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-1024x760.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-404x300.jpg 404w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-30x22.jpg 30w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1-13x10.jpg 13w, https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontal-view-of-sinuses-1.jpg 2000w\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The images below can help your provider point out where your cancer is and how treatments (like surgery and radiation) will work. Areas that can be affected by head &amp; neck cancers are shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deleted"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44330,"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311\/revisions\/44330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancercarealbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}