Overview
Provides a comprehensive view of both consolidated and innovative concepts in diagnosis and treatment?
Emphasizes the necessity of combining local and systemic treatments
Covers topics such as epidemiology and etiology, diagnosis modalities, global management of individual cancers, quality assurance programs, patient rehabilitation, salvage treatments, health economics, and psycho-oncology
Discusses new surgery and radiotherapy techniques, disease awareness, patient quality of life, and comprehensive management
Provides a detailed update of innovative concepts in chemo-and bio-radiation, viral infection impact on tumor growth and response to treatment, and impact of tumor and host-related factors on treatment outcome
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Table of contents(52 chapters)
About this book
Head-and-neck cancers are a complex clinical entity and their response to treatment is also known to vary markedly in function of host-related factors. Notwithstanding the impressive progresses observed in the field of imaging, head and neck cancers are often diagnosed at a late stage and the presence of locally advanced disease in a significant number of patients implies the use of aggressive treatments in order to both ensure local disease control and reduce distant metastasis risks.
In comparison with the first edition, Head and Neck Cancer, Second Edition provides a detailed update of innovative concepts in chemo- and bio-radiation, viral infection impact on tumor growth and response to treatment, and impact of tumor- and host-related factors on treatment outcome.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Radio-Oncology, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Genolier, Switzerland
Jacques Bernier
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Head and Neck Cancer
Book Subtitle: Multimodality Management
Editors: Jacques Bernier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27601-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27599-4Published: 01 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80182-7Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27601-4Published: 22 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 878
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations, 250 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Head and Neck Surgery