Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Role of HPV Infections in Head and Neck Cancer -- HPV AS ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR -- HPV AS PROGNOSTIC FACTOR -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: State of the Art in Radiation Oncology in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF RADIATION THERAPY: TARGET DELINEATION/IMAGING -- SUMMARY -- TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF RADIATION THERAPY: TREATMENT DELIVERY -- SUMMARY -- FRACTIONATION -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE AND RADIATION THERAPY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: Molecularly Targeted Agents in Recurrent, Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck -- INTRODUCTION -- CELLULAR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS -- TUMOR VASCULATURE -- CELL CYCLE INHIBITORS -- OTHER MECHANISMS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: Induction Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer: An Evolving Concept -- BACKGROUND -- TAXANES -- OTHER INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENS -- SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: Endoscopic Head and Neck Surgery: The Impact of Minimally Invasive Surgery Within Multidisciplinary Care -- INTRODUCTION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: Incorporating Novel Agents With Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck -- INTRODUCTION -- STANDARD TREATMENT OF LOCALLY ADVANCED SCCHN -- INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY -- PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME AFTER TREATMENT WITH EGFR INHIBITORS -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- KEY POINTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer -- BACKGROUND -- THE RATIONALE FOR CRT IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER -- CLINICAL DATA -- ADJUVANT CONCURRENT CRT -- ALTERED FRACTIONATION RADIATION THERAPY -- TOXICITY OF CRT.

EVOLVING PARADIGMS/FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- KEY POINTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: Multidisciplinary Management of Thyroid Cancer -- DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER -- ANAPLASTIC THYROID CARCINOMA -- MEDULLARY THYROID CARCINOMA -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: Evaluation and Treatment of Dysphagia and Aspiration in Head and Neck Cancer -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: Functional Imaging of Head and Neck Cancer with Positron Emission Tomography -- INTRODUCTION -- PRINCIPLES OF PET -- STAGING -- MANAGEMENT -- THERAPEUTIC MONITORING AND PROGNOSIS -- SURVEILLANCE AND RESTAGING FOR RECURRENCE HNSCC -- COST EFFECTIVENESS -- BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION WITH PET -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances in Multidisciplinary Care for Nasopharyngeal Cancer -- INTRODUCTION -- INCREASING UNDERSTANDING OF MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS -- EBV DNA: PROGNOSTICATION AND MONITORING -- ADVANCES IN RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING -- ADVANCES IN TREATMENT OF NONMETASTATIC NPC -- ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT OF LOCAL RECURRENCE -- ADVANCES IN CYTOTOXIC CHEMOTHERAPY IN METASTATIC DISEASE -- OTHER NOVEL THERAPIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- KEY POINTS -- REFERENCES -- Index.