Head and Neck Cancer (PDF)

After obtaining his degree in Radio-Oncology at the University of Liege, Belgium, Jacques Bernier completed his training at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, and the Curie Institute, Paris. In 2006 he joined the Swiss Genolier Medical Network, where since then he has been chairing the Radio-Oncology Department. Throughout most of his career, Jacques Bernier has been heavily involved with translational and clinical research. From 2000 to 2006 Jacques Bernier was Chairman of the Head and Neck Group of the EORTC. He currently serves as an Editorial Board member of various international peer-reviewed journals, including "Journal of Clinical Oncology". He is an Associate Editor of "Annals of Oncology" (since 2010), and "Oral Oncology" (since January 2011). A Course Director at the European School of Oncology since 1990, Jacques Bernier is also the Chairman of the International Conference on Translational Research in Radio-Oncology - ICTR, organized every three years in Switzerland. He serves as a regular member of advisory boards for many pharmaceutical companies. He is President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Radiation Oncology - FARO, in Geneva, member of the Executive Board of Euro-Asian Society of Mastology - EURAMA, Board of Trustees of "Science for Peace" and Scientific Committee of the "Umberto Veronesi Foundation" in Milan.

“This exceptional, up‐to‐date resource on the basic and clinical science of head and neck cancer synthesizes a vast amount of information in a single, comprehensive resource. … Specialists … as well as trainees in these fields, will find this an outstanding resource. … an extraordinary guide to this field. Those looking for a comprehensive resource on head and neck cancer will not find a better one. … it will soon become the definitive book on head and neck cancer.” (John David Cramer, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2017)