"Prognostic factors and predictive tests in the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma”
PhD thesis defence of F. J. P. Hoebers
November 8th 2007, 12:00 h
Universtity of Amsterdam
Primary supervisor: Prof. dr. H. Bartelink
Supervisors: Prof. dr. A. Begg en Prof. dr. M. Verheij
The treatment of head and neck cancer has changed during the last decades from single modality treatment into combined modality treatment for a large number of patients, including surgery with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. This has improved outcome, but also toxicity. Therefore, proper selection of patients for treatment options available is warranted. In this thesis, a number of studies are presented that aimed at applying or developing prognostic and predictive tests in order to be able to improve the (future) selection of patients for the appropriate treatment.
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