Surgical Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas (HNSCC)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2021) | Viewed by 52713
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are epithelial cancers arising from the mucosa lining of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx. Patients afflicted with this disease have a dismal prognosis and suffer from treatment-related toxicities and morbidities, i.e., trouble swallowing and speaking, and are often disfigured. The overall burden of HNSCC is high, with approximately 630,000 new cases diagnosed each year worldwide (150,000 in Europe) and 370,000 deaths.
Surgery is one of the mainstays of locoregional treatment. It has evolved within the last 35 years from a technique mostly concerned with the open resection of cancers to a domain entailing next to ablative procedures for cancers, reconstructive procedures (i.e., regional and free flaps), but also endoscopic surgical approaches to the oropharynx, larynx, hypopharynx, and anterior skull base to improve functional recovery (i.e., TORS, TLM).
The Special Issue will highlight the current state-of-the-art and future prospects of this rapidly developing area of surgery.
Prof. Christian Simon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- head and neck surgery
- trans-oral surgery
- TLM
- TORS
- robotic surgery
- endoscopic skull base surgery
- reconstructive surgery
- free flaps