Head & Neck Oncology: purpose, scope and goals-charting the future

doi:10.1186/1758-3284-1-1

Head & Neck Oncology

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Head & Neck Oncology: purpose, scope and goals-charting the future

Adel K El-Naggar¹ , Colin Hopper²^,3^,4 , Tahwinder Upile³^,4^,5 and Waseem Jerjes²^,3^,4

¹Head and Neck Pathology, Division of Pathology, UT. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA

²Head & Neck Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK

³Unit of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Division of Maxillofacial, Diagnostic, Medical and Surgical Sciences, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London, UK

⁴Department of Surgery, University College London Medical School, London, UK

⁵Department of Head & Neck Surgery, the Professorial Unit, the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK

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Head & Neck Oncology 2009, 1:1doi:10.1186/1758-3284-1-1


Published:	12 January 2009

Abstract

For many years now there has been a growing frustration with the statistics of head and neck cancer. Despite the many advances in diagnosis and therapy, there has been little change in the prognosis for most cancers of the head and neck in the last 50 years, so what is the point of yet another journal? Well, it is not all bad news.