Head and neck cancer : a multidisciplinary approach /: a multidisciplinary approach. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Head and neck cancer (2013)
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Louis B. Harrison, MD, FASTRO, Physician-in-Chief, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, Chairman and Gerald J. Friedman Chair of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York, New York, Roy B. Sessions, MD, FACS, Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Adjunct Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, Merrill S. Kies. MD, Professor of Medicine, Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Onncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
• Other Names: Harrison, Louis B editor of compilation.; Sessions, Roy B editor of compilation.; Kies, Merrill S editor of compilation.
• Contents: General principles of head and neck pathology -- Clinical evaluation of the head and neck cancer patient -- Prognostic factors in patients with head and neck cancer -- Radiologic evaluation of the head and neck cancer patient -- Novel radiation therapy techniques in the management of head and neck cancer -- New approaches: robotics and endoscopic head and neck surgery -- Targeted agents in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck -- Multidisciplinary reconstruction of the head and neck: general principles -- Dental oncology and maxillofacial prosthetics -- Interdisciplinary symptom management -- Evaluation and rehabilitation of speech, voice, and swallowing functions after treatment of head and neck cancer -- Human papillomavirus--associated head and neck carcinoma -- Chemoprevention -- Management of the neck -- Metastatic cancer to the neck from an unknown primary site -- Cancer of the oral cavity -- Cancer of the oropharynx -- Cancer of the larynx -- Cancers of the hypopharynx and cervical esophagus -- Cancer of the nasal vestibule, nasal cavity paranasal sinuses, anterior skull base, and orbit: surgical management -- Cancer of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinus: radiation therapy and chemotherapy management -- Cancer of the nasopharynx -- Basal and squamous cell skin cancers -- Melanoma of the head and neck -- Management of salivary gland tumors -- Primary and recurrent disease of the lateral skull base -- Paragangliomas of the head and neck -- Cancer of the thyroid and parathyroid -- Soft tissue and bone sarcomas of the head and neck -- Systemic targeted therapy for recurrent and metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer.
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : LWW
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (992 pages)
• Subjects: 616.99/491; Neck -- Cancer; Head -- Cancer; Head and Neck Neoplasms -- therapy; Head and Neck Neoplasms -- diagnosis
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781469830902; 1469830906
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