Prabhash Kumar, Babu Govind, Chaturvedi Pankaj, Kuriakose Moni, Birur Praveen, Anand Anil K, Kaushal Ashish, Mahajan Abhishek, Syiemlieh Judita, Singhal Manish, Gairola Munish, Ramachandra Prakash, Goyal Sumit, John Subashini, Nayyar Rohit, Patil Vijay M, Rao Vishal, Roshan Vikas, Rath G K
Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Medical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Cancer. 2020 Feb;57(Supplement):S1-S5. doi: 10.4103/0019-509X.278971.
Head and neck cancers (HNCs) are malignant tumors of the upper aerodigestive tract and are the sixth most common cancer worldwide. In India, around 30-40% of all cancers are HNCs. Even though there are global guidelines or recommendations for the management of HNCs, these may not be appropriate for Indian scenarios. In an effort to discuss current practices, latest developments and to come to a consensus to recommend management strategies for different anatomical subsites of HNCs for Indian patients, a group of experts (medical, surgical and radiation oncologists and dentists) was formed. A review of literature from medical databases was conducted to provide the best possible evidence base, which was reviewed by experts during a consensus group meeting (January, 2019) to provide recommendations.
头颈癌（HNCs）是上消化道和呼吸道的恶性肿瘤，是全球第六大常见癌症。在印度，所有癌症中约30%-40%为头颈癌。尽管有全球关于头颈癌管理的指南或建议，但这些可能并不适用于印度的情况。为了讨论当前的实践、最新进展，并就针对印度患者头颈癌不同解剖亚部位的管理策略达成共识并提出建议，成立了一个专家小组（医学、外科和放射肿瘤学家以及牙医）。对医学数据库中的文献进行了综述，以提供尽可能最佳的证据基础，专家们在一次共识小组会议（2019年1月）期间对其进行了审查，以提出建议。
