Jinyi Lang, Li Gao, Ye Guo, Chong Zhao, Chenping Zhang
Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common malignant tumor worldwide, and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck accounts for more than 90% of head and neck cancers. In China, the incidence of oral cavity and pharyngolaryngeal cancer is 3.28 per 100,000 with a mortality of 1.37 per 100,000, and the incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer is 3.61 per 100,000 with a mortality was 1.99 per 100,000. In 2013, an expert consensus conference was held in China with the aim of establishing the optimum multimodality treatments that are applied in Chinese patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck...
2014: Future Oncology