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Surgery in head and neck cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines

This is the official guideline endorsed by the specialty associations involved in the care of head and neck cancer patients in the UK. Surgery is one of the key modalities used in head and neck cancer treatment. Recent advances and a greater awareness of the short- and long-term toxicities associate...

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Autor principal: Homer, J J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27841115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022215116000475
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description This is the official guideline endorsed by the specialty associations involved in the care of head and neck cancer patients in the UK. Surgery is one of the key modalities used in head and neck cancer treatment. Recent advances and a greater awareness of the short- and long-term toxicities associated with non-surgical modalities and newer technologies that permit minimal access resections have led to a resurgence in surgery. This paper provides an overview of the role of surgery in head and neck cancer practice.
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spelling pubmed-48739282016-05-27 Surgery in head and neck cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines Homer, J J J Laryngol Otol Guidelines This is the official guideline endorsed by the specialty associations involved in the care of head and neck cancer patients in the UK. Surgery is one of the key modalities used in head and neck cancer treatment. Recent advances and a greater awareness of the short- and long-term toxicities associated with non-surgical modalities and newer technologies that permit minimal access resections have led to a resurgence in surgery. This paper provides an overview of the role of surgery in head and neck cancer practice. Cambridge University Press 2016-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4873928/ /pubmed/27841115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022215116000475 Text en © JLO (1984) Limited 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27841115
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