Head and neck cancer : a multidisciplinary approach / 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, Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Adjunct Professor, Otorhinolaryngology - 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Louis B., editor.

Sessions, Roy B., editor.

Kies, Merrill S., editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Standardized Title:

Head and neck cancer (2013)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neck--Cancer.

Neck.

Head--Cancer.

Head.

Head and Neck Neoplasms--therapy.

Head and Neck Neoplasms--diagnosis.

Medical Subjects:

Head and Neck Neoplasms--therapy.

Head and Neck Neoplasms--diagnosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 908 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2014]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Head and Neck Cancer is the first, truly multi-disciplinary book in this field. The focus is the 2-part approach that any physician treating these patients must follow: maximize the chance for a cure while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality of life. Although the overall incidence of head and neck cancer is not as great as breast or lung, it is a very devastating form of cancer which has tremendous implications not only on the overall health of the patient, but on his or her appearance and quality of life. The book is a comprehensive textbook that crossed all disciplines and represented a

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469830902

1469830906

9781469874760

1469874768

OCLC:

864058624