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Volume 354:883-884 February 23, 2006 Number 8
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Squamous Cell Head and Neck Cancer: Recent Clinical Progress and Prospects for the Future

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(Current Clinical Oncology.) Edited by David J. Adelstein. 358 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2005. $165. ISBN 1-58829-473-0.

Starting with the rarely considered subject of squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck in the patient who neither smokes nor drinks and concluding with a broad discussion of palliation, the 21 chapters of this book describe recent advances in this specialty field and prospects for treatment of squamous-cell cancer of the head and neck. The many treatments considered in the book include radical and conservative surgery, external-beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, combined treatments, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, chemoprevention, and gene therapy. This book is one volume in a series of comprehensive reviews in oncology.

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