Head and Neck Cancers
Richard S. Pieters, James Liebmann, Andrew Chen, Liana Puscas & Ali Akalin
This chapter is part of: Pieters RS, Liebmann J, eds. Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist. Worcester, MA: UMass Chan Medical School; 2015-. doi: 10.7191/cancer_concepts
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This chapter in Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist presents an overview of head and neck cancers, including epidemiology, etiology, screening, pathology, staging, and treatment. The chapter focuses on cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract which are most often squamous cell carcinomas arising from the squamous epithelium that lines the tract. |
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Published Published By March 25, 2019 UMass Chan Medical School License Information http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Citation Richard S. Pieters et al. 2019. Head and Neck Cancers. In Pieters RS, Liebmann J, eds. Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist. Worcester, MA: UMass Chan Medical School; 2015-. doi: 10.7191/cancer_concepts -
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Head and Neck Cancers has the following notes:
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This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN276201100010C with the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.
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