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Jacquelynne Cervantes-Torres, Laura Montero, Noé Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Edda Sciutto, Gladis Fragoso and Diana Torres-García


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has advanced the field so greatly in recent years.

The increasing numbers reflect improvement all over the cancer continuum, which includes early detection, supportive care, and therapeutic approaches. Despite the considerable mo‐ mentum that the topic of cancer survivorship has gained in the last few decades, an enor‐ mous amount of work remains to be done to achieve success throughout the cancer trajectory, which is detailed in the enclosed articles. This edition on cancer survivorship is the first issue in the IntechOpen Series, with its broad spectrum of articles devoted to cancer survivorship, and will provide an important update to survivors, clinicians, and researchers. When we initiated setting up the special edition, there were no previous examples to pursue and we were privileged that our editor-in-chief, Professor Dil Afroze, provided us the op‐ portunity to complete the book. Moreover, this issue will continue to provide the field with the attention that it so importantly deserves. Because cancer is becoming a chronic condition itself and the prevalence of chronic conditions in the world population is at an all-time high, this book aims to provide state-of-the-art articles on topics important to the management of cancer clinically and answer some of the questions related to the interface of cancer and co‐ morbidity that oncology practitioners face every day. We were directed by a number of principles, including that the articles should be evidence based, of the highest quality, and understandable by the practicing clinicians and oncologists. We also desired to guarantee that past advances at the molecular–clinical interface were covered, and that authors were also provided an opportunity to speculate on future opportunities. The resulting edition is a marvelous compendium of eight articles that cover a wide range of topics, including breast cancer: management and survivorship, rectal cancer intersphincteric resection, head and neck cancer diagnosis and radiotherapy, synthetic peptides as antitumor agents, and recent advances in thyroid cancer. It has been a wonderful opportunity to co-edit this special edi‐ tion. We are greatly appreciative of the work of all the contributors to the book who brought with them tremendous diversity of perspectives and fields truly reflective of the complexity of the topic and who, through coming together in this project, serve as the nidus of the mul‐ tidisciplinary collaboration in this field. Finally, we must acknowledge the thousands of can‐ cer patients who have participated in the studies that have provided the information that

> **Dr. Dil Afroze** Professor and Head

Advanced Centre for Human Genetics Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences

Soura-190011, Srinagar, J&K, India
