title: Head & Neck Oncology: purpose, scope and goals-charting the future.
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.
authors.forename: Adel K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: El-Naggar
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hopper
authors.forename: Tahwinder
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Upile
authors.forename: Waseem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jerjes
mesh_terms: D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010166:Palliative Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D017211:Treatment Failure