EAN: 9783319275994

HEAD AND NECK CANCER GEBUNDEN

¿This second edition ¿provides a comprehensive view of consolidated and innovative concepts  in
terms of both diagnosis and treatment. Written by leading international physicians and
investigators  this book emphasizes the necessity of combining local and systemic treatments to
achieve the objective of yielding higher cure rates and lower toxicities. Heavily updated from
the previous edition  it highlights new surgery and radiotherapy techniques  disease awareness
patient quality of life  and comprehensive management. 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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