The ninth edition of the UICC's Manual of Clinical Oncology supports oncology practice across the globe by providing a concise, accessible and feasible reference to state of art multidisciplinary clinical oncology. * Packed with bullet points, tables, and flow charts intended to facilitate quick reference for day-to-day clinical practice in busy oncology environments * Demonstrates multidisciplinary care for site specific management * Takes evidence-based approaches to management, including specific treatment recommendations and investigations guided by clinical practice guidelines * Provides state of art evidence-based recommendations as well as taking into consideration the lack of availability of certain medications or resources, as well as practice variations, throughout the world * Includes contemporary topics on cancer treatment, such as, cancer informatics, evidence levels, principles of prognostication, survivorship, and cancer in pregnancy

Brian O'Sullivan, MD, FRCPC, FRCPI, FFRRCSI (Hon), FASTRO (Editor-in-Chief) Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology BartleySmith / Wharton Chair in Radiation Oncology Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada James D Brierley, BSc, MB, FRCP, FRCR, FRCPC (Associate Editor) Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Anil K. D'Cruz MS, DNB, FRCS (Associate Editor) Professor, Department of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India Martin F. Fey, MD (Associate Editor) Professor, Department of Medical Oncology Inselspital and University Hospital Bern, Switzerland Raphael Pollock, MD, PhD (Associate Editor) Director of Surgical Oncology, Chief of Surgical Services The James NCICCC/Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA Jan B. Vermorken, MD, PhD (Associate Editor) Emeritus Professor of Oncology Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Department of Medical Oncology Antwerp University Hospital Edegem, Belgium Shao Hui Huang, MD, MSc, MRT(T) (Editorial coordinator) Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / University of Toronto BIOGRAPHIES Brian O'Sullivan is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He also holds the Bartley-Smith/Wharton Distinguished Chair in Radiation Oncology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto. He is the Head and Neck Oncology Program Chair at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the co-Chair of the US NCI Head and Neck Steering Committee, Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, CTEP, and a full standing member of the Commission of the International Commission on Radiation Units (ICRU). He is the recipient of numerous international awards, and research grants. He has published almost 300 peer reviewed papers, in excess of 50 book chapters, and has written or edited 6 oncology textbooks. His interests include sarcoma and head and neck cancer, translational research, IMRT delivery and the principles of image guided radiotherapy, chemo-radiotherapy and molecular targeting. He is a member of the TNM Committee of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Chair of the UICC Prognostic Classification Sub-Committee and represents the UICC as liaison in several oncology sites to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). James Brierley is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. He obtained his medical degree from Westminster Medical School, University of London. He initially did postgraduate training in Internal Medicine before transferring to Clinical Oncology. He is interested in the management of gastrointestinal malignancy and thyroid malignancy and cancer staging and surveillance. He has written extensively on thyroid cancer, the role of radiation in gastrointestinal malignancy and cancer staging and surveillance and is actively involved in research into the role of radiation in the management of gastrointestinal and endocrine malignancies and ensuring staging data is collected and used on a population basis. He is the previous head of the Gastrointestinal Site Group at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and is currently the Canadian Partnership Against; Cancer Expert Lead, Staging and Surveillance. He is a Member of the AJCC Executive and Chair of the AJCC Education and Promotions Working Group, Co-Chair of the UICC TNM Prognostic Factors Core Group and Co-Editor of the UICC 8th edition TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours. Anil D'Cruz is Director at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India as well as Professor& Surgeon, Department of Head & Neck Surgery. He is a d