Conferences
20–22 September 2023, Piacenza, Italy
The First International Congress on “Update on the Management of Head and Neck Paragangliomas” 2023
The “Gruppo Otologico” (www.gruppootologico.com) is pleased to announce the organization of the First International Congress on “Update on the Management of Head and Neck Paragangliomas” (https://paragangliomas.com/) for 20–22 September 2023, in Piacenza, Italy, an ancient city of Northern Italy near Milan which is the main seat of “Gruppo Otologico”.
Head and neck paragangliomas are rare tumors that, due to anatomic location, pose significant challenges to surgical treatment. Nevertheless, the last 25 years have witnessed a significant evolution in surgical techniques, particularly in skull base surgery, which today makes operable tumors previously regarded as inoperable.
These exciting developments are enhanced by major advances in diagnostic and interventional radiology that vastly improve diagnosis, staging, and follow-up and pave the way for precision radiotherapy and locoregional disease control.
Furthermore, breakthroughs in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, which took off in the early 2000s, resulted in an ever-increasing understanding of the molecular processes that lie at the basis of head and neck paraganglioma and of paragangliomas at large.
With the organization of this congress, “Gruppo Otologico” aims to bring together for the first time the full range of health professionals and researchers from different specialties who work on head and neck paragangliomas.
The congress intends to address the state of the art of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up, evaluate new research perspectives, and provide a highly specialized forum for the exchange of ideas and for the creation of networks to fight this neglected tumor type.
The Special Issue of Cancers will spread up-to-date information coming from the Congress to the global clinical and research community, to improve the global understanding and management of these complex and rare neoplasms. Relevant papers from authors who could not attend in person will be also considered for the Congress collection.
