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Head and Neck Cancers

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This chapter on head and neck cancers is aiming to summarize the evidence-based current management at mainly three sites; nasopharynx, oropharynx and larynx. We hope to ease the understanding in the appropriate delineation of tumor volumes/fields along with site-related case presentations covering diagnostic images, contouring, slice by slice final plan examples; accompanied by up-to-date key literature review.

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