Overview
- Provides busy clinicians with easily readable information
- Provides practical advice on managing patients with non-melanoma skin cancer
- Offers a concise, informative and up-to-date approach to non-melanoma skin cancer of head and neck
Part of the book series: Head and Neck Cancer Clinics (HNCC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Non-melanoma skin cancer is a global public health issue. With an ever-increasing, and ageing, world population coupled with increasing numbers of immunosuppressed individuals the number of patients continues to rise. The head and neck is overwhelmingly the most frequent location for the development of a non-melanoma skin cancer and as such challenges the clinician with its complex anatomy. The importance of maintaining the aesthetics of the face and the function of the anatomy cannot be overstated, yet ultimately it is always the aim of curing a patient with the minimum of morbidity that clinicians strive for. However, the spectrum of presentations and subsequent management varies widely, ranging from patients with the ubiquitous low-risk mid-face basal cell carcinoma to those diagnosed with relatively uncommon but potentially life-threatening high-risk squamous cell carcinomas (e.g. involving metastatic lymph nodes or with perineural invasion present) and Merkel cell carcinomas.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
FARUQUE RIFFAT
Consultant Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck SurgeonClinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Australia
CARSTEN E. PALME
Clinical Associate Professor, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
MICHAEL VENESS
Clinical Professor, University of Sydney
Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-melanoma Skin Cancer of the Head and Neck
Editors: Faruque Riffat, Carsten E. Palme, Michael Veness
Series Title: Head and Neck Cancer Clinics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2497-6
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature India Private Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2496-9Published: 09 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3444-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2497-6Published: 30 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-4060
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4079
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 201
Additional Information: Jointly published with Byword Books
Topics: Oncology