Multidisciplinary Management of Head and Neck Cancer Contemporary Applications and Techniques

This book is a multidisciplinary guide to head and neck cancer.Head and neck cancer remains one of the most technically complex cancer subsites to manage. This field involves highly specialized, multidisciplinary management and collaboration amongst surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and other health disciplines. The clinical and research landscape for head and neck oncology continues to evolve at a rapid pace.

This book is an ideal resource for clinicians, trainees, and researchers dealing with, and interested in, this challenging malignancy. 

Deintensification strategies.- Novel Multidisiplinary Paradigms: Surgery/Radiation, Immunotherapy, Organ Preservation.- Advances in Surgery and Reconstruction: TORS, TLM.- Advances in Radiation: Ion therapy, advanced techniques.- Advances in Systemic Therapy.- Advances in Molecular and Advanced Imaging.- Immunotherapy.- Molecular Profiling/Epidemiology.- Nanotechnology, Biomarkers.- Radiomics/Novel Imaging Response.- Recurrent or Second Primary Head and Neck Cancer.- Dentistry.- Supportive Care, Comorbid Conditions and Survivorship.- Rare Cancers.

Dr. Chandra is a Radiation Oncologist with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group in the Washington, DC area. He also serves as Clinical Associate Professor of of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), where he served as Director of Head and Neck Radiation Oncology. He completed his residency and clinical fellowship at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. Dr. Chandra received degrees from Johns Hopkins (MD), UC-Berkeley (PhD-Chemistry), and Stanford (BS-Chemistry and Biology).