title: [Historical review on treatment of head and neck cancer in modern medicine].
abstract: The summarization includes understandings of the etiological factors, evolution course of treatment of head and neck cancer in pre - modern era (1500 - 1900) and modern age, and the historical summary of head and neck cancer treatment in China, aiming at providing references for its further development through historical reviewing on its law summarized through 150 years of experience.
authors.affiliation: Peking. Medical College of Stomatology, Beijing University, Beijing 100081.
authors.forename: Chuanbin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Daqing
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D019366:Western World / Q000266:history*