Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is really a great pleasure for us to invite you to attend the opening meeting of the 2nd IFHNOS World Tour taking place in Frankfurt, Germany. With the experience of the 1st World Tour we are more than convinced that we will be able to spend three highly interesting days together full of intensive discussions.

Regional experts in the specialities will join the travelling faculty for each scientific session to permit intellectual exchange and a balanced view to regional variances in current practices in the management of head and neck tumors. Each topic will include several vital and provocative issues for discussion.

Multidisciplinary involvement will be emphasized, including the importance of adjuvant therapies and their results. Issues pertaining to diagnostic procedures, anatomic and functional imaging, biomarkers, and the role of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and rehabilitation, etc. will be covered whenever appropriate within the context of the selected topics. This program has been constructed to cover major topics in head and neck, including oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, salivary glands, thyroid, paranasal sinuses and skull base, metastatic cancer in the neck, head and neck reconstruction, cutaneous malignancies of the head and neck, and parapharyngeal space, soft tissue, and bone tumors, as well as the emerging role of minimally invasive surgery in the head and neck. While the emphasis of the entire course will be on cancer, issues related to benign tumors and diseases in the head and neck (including tumors of the salivary glands, thyroid, parapharyngeal space tumors and other related topics) will be prudently addressed.

Join us in Frankfurt – not only to receive scientific information and training but also to meet old friends or find new ones. We will do our very best to make your stay as comfortable as possible.