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Standardization for oncologic head and neck surgery.

Ohad RonenK Thomas RobbinsRemco de BreeOrlando Guntinas-LichiusDana M HartlAkihiro HommaAvi KhafifLuiz P KowalskiFernando LópezAntti A MäkitieWai Tong NgAlessandra RinaldoJuan P RodrigoAlvaro SanabriaAlfio Ferlito
Published in: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (2021)
The inherent variability in performing specific surgical procedures for head and neck cancer remains a barrier for accurately assessing treatment outcomes, particularly in clinical trials. While non-surgical modalities for cancer therapeutics have evolved to become far more uniform, there remains the challenge to standardize surgery. The purpose of this review is to identify the barriers in achieving uniformity and to highlight efforts by surgical groups to standardize selected operations and nomenclature. While further improvements in standardization will remain a challenge, we must encourage surgical groups to focus on strategies that provide such a level.
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