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Head and Neck Cancers: Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist

This chapter in Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist presents an overview of head and neck cancers, including epidemiology, etiology, screening, pathology, staging, and treatment. The chapter focuses on cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract which are most often squamous cell carcinomas arising from the squamous epithelium that lines the tract....

Keywords:: epidemiology, Neoplasms Commons, pathology, Oncology Commons, neck cancer, head cancer, Radiology Commons, Cancer Biology Commons, etiology, upper aerodigestive tract, squamous cell carcinomas

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Health Sciences / Cancer

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Material Type:: Online Course Module
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 15, 2020
Date Modified in MERLOT:: April 26, 2021
Authors:: James Liebmann, University of Massachusetts medical School
Ali Akalin, University of Massachusetts medical School
Andrew Chen, University of Massachusetts medical School
Richard S Pieters, University of Massachusetts medical School
Liana Puscas, Duke University
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: Website
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Technical Requirements:: To take advantage of the interactive features, please download the chapter to your local system. (2.2 MB)
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International