Overview
- Editors:
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Jacques Bernier
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Department of Radio-Oncology, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Genolier, Switzerland
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)
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- Newell W. Johnson, Hemantha K. Amarasinghe
Pages 1-57
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- Fausto Chiesa, Angelo Ostuni, Roberto Grigolato, Luca Calabrese, Mohssen Ansarin
Pages 59-76
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- Jason I. Kass, Howard S. Moskowitz, Jennifer R. Grandis
Pages 101-114
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- Jagtar Dhanda, Richard J. Shaw
Pages 115-132
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- Benjamin A. Kansy, Steve C. Lee, Robert L. Ferris
Pages 133-148
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- Hyunseok Kang, Christine H. Chung, Arlene A. Forastiere
Pages 149-162
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- Jeffrey Brumbaugh, Robert L. Ferris, Shen Hu
Pages 163-179
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- Brian O’Sullivan, Jatin P. Shah, William M. Lydiatt
Pages 181-203
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- C. L. Zuur, A. J. C. Dohmen, Michiel W. van den Brekel, Xiao-Jing Wang, Stephen Malkosky
Pages 205-213
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- David S. Yoo, David M. Brizel
Pages 215-227
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- Taha S. Meraj, Suyash Mohan, Gaurang V. Shah
Pages 243-264
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- Yolanda Y. P. Lee, Ka Tak Wong, Kunwar Suryaveer Singh Bhatia, Anil Tejbhan Ahuja
Pages 265-278
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- Oliver J. Smith, Lee W. T. Alkureishi, Gary L. Ross
Pages 279-299
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- Marsha Reyngold, Edward J. Shin, Nancy Lee
Pages 301-315
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- Thomas Leroy, Eric Lartigau
Pages 317-324
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- Danielle N. Margalit, Judy A. Adams, Hanne M. Kooy, Annie W. Chan
Pages 325-336
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- Cristina P. Rodriguez, David J. Adelstein
Pages 337-348
About this book
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.
Reviews
“This exceptional, up‐to‐date resource on the basic and clinical science of head and neck cancer synthesizes a vast amount of information in a single, comprehensive resource. … Specialists … as well as trainees in these fields, will find this an outstanding resource. … an extraordinary guide to this field. Those looking for a comprehensive resource on head and neck cancer will not find a better one. … it will soon become the definitive book on head and neck cancer.” (John David Cramer, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Radio-Oncology, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Genolier, Switzerland
Jacques Bernier
About the editor
After obtaining his degree in Radio-Oncology at the University of Liege, Belgium, Jacques Bernier completed his training at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, and the Curie Institute, Paris. In 2006 he joined the Swiss Genolier Medical Network, where since then he has been chairing the Radio-Oncology Department. Throughout most of his career, Jacques Bernier has been heavily involved with translational and clinical research. From 2000 to 2006 Jacques Bernier was Chairman of the Head and Neck Group of the EORTC. He currently serves as an Editorial Board member of various international peer-reviewed journals, including “Journal of Clinical Oncology”. He is an Associate Editor of “Annals of Oncology” (since 2010), and “Oral Oncology” (since January 2011). A Course Director at the European School of Oncology since 1990, Jacques Bernier is also the Chairman of the International Conference on Translational Research in Radio-Oncology - ICTR, organized every three years in Switzerland. He serves as a regular member of advisory boards for many pharmaceutical companies. He is President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Radiation Oncology – FARO, in Geneva, member of the Executive Board of Euro-Asian Society of Mastology - EURAMA, Board of Trustees of “Science for Peace” and Scientific Committee of the “Umberto Veronesi Foundation” in Milan.
