Second edition. Edited by Louis B. Harrison, Roy B. Sessions, and Waun Ki Hong. 1077 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004. $199. ISBN 0-7817-3369-3.
Head and neck cancer is a devastating illness. This year, thedisease will develop in about 46,000 people and cause 12,000deaths in the United States alone. More than 600,000 cases arepredicted worldwide. These numbers cannot describe the physical,emotional, and psychosocial damage wrought by head and neckcancer. Extraordinarily debilitating, the disease affects vitalfunctions people use to define themselves in society. Speech,swallowing, phonation, and appearance are substantially impairedby both the malignancy and its treatment. Advanced cases frequentlyrequire both extensive surgery and radiation therapy, leavingfunctional and cosmetic deficits to challenge even the mostskilled . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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