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- • Hypopharynx. This is the lower part of the throat
- (pharynx) where food goes just before we swallow it.
- • Larynx. The larynx (voice box) is in the front of
- the neck in the region of the Adam's apple.
- • Metastatic squamous cell cancer to cervical (neck)
- lymph nodes . If a cancer that is discovered in
- lymph nodes in the upper part of the neck is
- squamous cell (or epidermoid), it is usually a
- metastasis from a head and neck cancer. Unless
- some other primary source can be found (such as
- lung cancer), this tumor is generally treated as a
- head and neck cancer. It is important to know that
- this type of metastatic cancer may be curable
- (discussed later in the section) ( see also "Cancer of an Unknown Primary Site" ).