Prognosis in Head and Neck Cancer is essential reading for all clinical oncologists and otolaryngologists/head and neck surgeons enabling them to provide a more accurate, reliable and individual prognosis for cancer patients.

Prognosis in Head and Neck Cancer arms the professioinal with the necessary tools to update knowledge and interpret current and future information concerning prognostic factors in head and neck cancer.

Contents Basics

1. Epidemiology
2. Statistics
3. Epidemiology of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Host Factors

4. General patient factors
5. Prior malignancies
6. Psychology and quality of life
7. Immune biomarkers

Tumor Factors

8. General tumor factors
9. Histopathology
10. Prognosis in premalignant lesions
11. Imaging characteristics of the primary tumor

Metastasis

12. Imaging characteristics of regional metastasis
13. Prediction of regional metastasis
14. Distant metastasis

External Factors

15. Demographic factors
16. Treatment factors

Predictive Models

17. Prediction of survival with statistical models
18. Data mining and knowledge discovery
19. OncologIQ
20. Prognostigram
21. Prognosis in patients with parotid carcinoma

Index

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