Multidisciplinary Management of Head and Neck Cancer: Contemporary Applications and Techniques

This book is a multidisciplinary guide to head and neck cancer.Head and neck cancer remains one of the most technically complex cancer subsites to manage. This field involves highly specialized, multidisciplinary management and collaboration amongst surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and other health disciplines. The clinical and research landscape for head and neck oncology continues to evolve at a rapid pace.

This multidisciplinary book provides the latest updates in the contemporary understanding and management of these tumors. The text incorporates updates in surgical techniques (minimally invasive and robotic techniques, reconstructive approaches), radiation medicine (new data on dose and fields, oligometastatic/oligoprogressive disease, retreatment), medical oncology (targeted, immunotherapy and molecular agents), in addition to other overarching topics such as side effects, biomarkers/nanotechnology, and epidemiology. Written by experts in their respective fields, chapters include the most up to date scientific and clinical information with perspectives from each relevant subspeciality. These sections are concise and accessible, yet comprehensive. Palliative medicine, pathologic and imaging principles, and health systems/economics considerations are also described.

This book is an ideal resource for clinicians, trainees, and researchers dealing with, and interested in, this challenging malignancy.

Dr. Chandra is a Radiation Oncologist with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group in the Washington, DC area. He also serves as Clinical Associate Professor of of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), where he served as Director of Head and Neck Radiation Oncology. He completed his residency and clinical fellowship at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. Dr. Chandra received degrees from Johns Hopkins (MD), UC-Berkeley (PhD-Chemistry), and Stanford (BS-Chemistry and Biology).

Dr. Li is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He serves as Director of the Head and Neck Robotic Surgery Program, and the Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Fellowship at OHSU. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a Fellowship in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, and Microvascular Reconstruction at Stanford University.