Head and neck cancer
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Bibliographic Information
Head and neck cancer
（Wiley series on cancer investigation and management, v. 2）（A Wiley medical publication）
Wiley, c1985
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Tumours of the head and neck are amongst the most difficult to diagnose and manage. Particularly important in this group are tumours affecting the brain. This book discusses the recent rapid advances in diagnosis which have occurred as a result of new imaging modalities. Surgical, radiological and chemo-therapeutic treatments are still the mainstay of management but novel methods of treatment are being introduced, such as hyperthermia for certain facial and oral tumours and the targeting of cytotoxic drugs by the use of monoclonal antibodies in, for example, lymphomatous tumours of the neck and oesophagus.
Table of Contents
- Epidemiology: epidemiology of cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx and larynx
- epidemiology of nasopharyngeal cancer. Staging: current problems in clinical staging
- use of the CO2 laser in diagnosis and staging
- cervical lymphoscintigraphy
- circulating markers
- malignancy-associated hypercalcemia - mechanisms and Management. Treatment and prevention: overview of conventional surgery and radiotherapy
- brachytherapy
- hypoxic cell radiation sensitizers
- radiotherapy with pi mesons
- fast neutrons
- the potential role of hyperthermia
- current status of chemotherapy
- concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy
- immunology and immunotherapy
- nutrition
- chemoprevention. Cells in culture: establishment of epidermoid carcinoma cell lines
- cloning of malignant cells from epidermoid head and neck cancer. Methodology: planning and execution of large-scale multicenter comparative trials in head and neck cancer
- the problem of accrual to clinical trials in head and neck cancer
- current trends in therapeutic research.
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