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Cancers of the Head and Neck - Advances in Surgical Therapy, Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Cancers of the Head and Neck - Advances in Surgical Therapy, Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 32
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Cancers of the head and neck are among the most morbid of cancers.
Convention al surgery and/or radiation therapy have a high cure
rate for patients with early stage disease. However, despite
optimal treatment with surgery and radiotherapy, patients with
nodal spread or extensive local disease have a low cure rate. Even
if a cancer is cured, a patient is often left with long-term
debilities from the treatment and/or cancer. The major causes for
decreased survival in patients with advanced head and neck cancer
include local recurrence, distant metastases, and second primaries.
All of these need to be addressed if one is to improve upon the
curability of advanced disease. There are several new techniques,
surgical and radiotherapeutic, designed to improve local control.
Brachytherapy, or interstitial implantation, delivers a high dose
of localized radiation with minimal normal tissue injury. This
technique as discussed by Goffinet, may be even more efficacious
when combined with hyperthermia. New, creative methods of radiation
therapy delivery, such as the use of multiple fractions per day, as
discussed by Parsons and Million, are also contributing to
long-term local control. Laser therapy, discussed by Ossoff and
Nemeroff, provides another tool for treatment of local disease."
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