Targeted Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 553
Special Issue Editors
Interests: salivary glands; thyroid surgery; laryngeal cancer; molecular oncology; reconstruction; microsurgery; oral cancer; HPV; oropharyngeal cancer
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Interests: salivary glands; thyroid surgery; laryngeal cancer; molecular oncology; reconstruction; microsurgery; oral cancer; HPV; oropharyngeal cancer
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Head and neck oncology is at a turning point, looking to new horizons, surgical and otherwise. Although rare neoplasms, with the exception (albeit small) of laryngeal cancer, head and neck cancers (oral cavity, oropharyngeal, laryngeal, hypopharyngeal, and nasal–sinus cancers) have a significant 'molecular' delay compared to neoplasms in other districts, and not only when we talk about ‘giants’, such as lung or breast cancer, but also when we look at bigger ‘cousins’, such as cutaneous melanoma (but its incidence varies greatly from continent to continent and even more between states).
The need for targeted therapies that take into account not only clinical and pathological variables, but above all the biology (and thus the molecular receptors expressed) of the tumor, is forcing the entire head and neck community, clinicians and surgeons alike, to confront aspects that have received little attention to date.
In this Special Issue, we aim to stimulate the debate on the new surgical and, above all, molecular options for head and neck cancers in order to provide a detailed overview of therapies specific to the biology of each individual neoplasm.
Retrospective and prospective studies, case series, narrative and systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis, and articles illustrating surgical techniques are welcome.
Dr. Pietro De Luca
Prof. Angelo Camaioni
Dr. Luca de Campora
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- salivary glands
- thyroid
- laryngeal cancer
- molecular oncology
- reconstruction
- microsurgery
- oral cancer
- HPV
- oropharyngeal cancer
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