CONCLUSION
Biological and psychosocial factors may contribute to the delayed
diagnosis of HNCs. The high rate of cancer-related deaths in postmortem
diagnosis of non-thyroid HNCs reveals the need for health care
professionals to increase vigilance in detecting these cancers in order
to prevent misdiagnoses. Our study demonstrates that it is imperative
the medical community improves awareness of asymptomatic HNC patients
and emphasizes the need to improve screening in those who may be high
risk for disease development.