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SUBMITTER: Hayes DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4586167 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hayes D Neil DN Van Waes Carter C Seiwert Tanguy Y TY
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 20150908 29
Head and neck cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. It is often amenable to curative intent therapy when localized to the head and neck region, but it carries a poor prognosis when it is recurrent or metastatic. Therefore, initial treatment decisions are critical to improve patient survival. However, multimodality therapy used with curative intent is toxic. The balance between offering intensive versus tolerable and function-preserving therapy has been thrown into sharp relief with t ...[more]