Nádory hlavy a krku
| Title in English | Head and neck cancer |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter deals with cancer of head and neck region. These diseases are described comprehensively in order to inform the medical community about the basic symptoms, diagnosis and treatment strategies for these diseases. Access to treatment is clearly multidisciplinary. Great advances were made by incorporating chemotherapy or targeted therapy to radiotherapy schemes, using special fractionation or modern radiotherapy techniques. Great emphasis is nowadays placed on quality of life; the ratio between the effect of treatment and its toxicity. This chapter is primarily intended for non- oncologists to gain basic knowledge about head and neck cancer. |