Head and Neck Cancers: Modern Management
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 548
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Medical Oncology, Regional Institute of Oncology, 700483 Iasi, Romania
Interests: radiation oncology; head and neck cancers; medical oncology
Interests: radiation oncology; head and neck cancers
2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Regional Institute of Oncology, 700483 Iasi, Romania
Interests: radiation oncology; head and neck cancers; medical oncology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although it represents the 6th most common neoplasm, head and neck cancer is a major public health problem due to the high rates of therapeutic failure and increased mortality. The toxicities associated with multimodal therapies severely affect the quality of life (QoL) and generate significant costs associated with the medical care of these patients.
Advances in diagnostic techniques, including high-performance imaging and immunohistochemistry, but also therapeutic techniques, including robotic surgery, irradiation techniques, targeted molecular therapies and immunotherapy, have brought benefits in survival, even in advanced stages of the disease. Longer survival rates also bring pattern of disease progression and toxicities through synergistic associations of oncological therapies.
This Special Issue proposes the publication of case reports, original studies and review articles that present results of modern multimodal treatments and the toxicities related with long-term survival in locally advanced, recurrent and metastatic cases of head and neck cancer, in addition to the topics outlined below:
- Unusual patterns of disease progression
- A combination of radiotherapy-immunotherapy-targeted molecular therapy
- The abscopal effect after radiation therapy and immunotherapy
- Radio-induced secondary cancer
- Image-guided radiotherapy techniques and stereotactic body radiosurgery (SBRT), proton therapy, carbon ion therapy, radiobiological models for toxicities
- Financial toxicity associated with the care of heavily treated throat cancer patients
- Modern management of oligo-metastatic disease
Prof. Dr. Lucian Miron
Guest Editor
Dr. Camil Mirestean
Dr. Dragos Teodor Iancu
Guest Editor Assistants
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Keywords
- head and neck cancers
- image-guided radiotherapy
- stereotactic body radiosurgery (SBRT)
- proton therapy
- carbon ion therapy
- radiobiological models
- immunotherapy
- targeted therapy
- secondary cancers
- oligo-metastatic
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