This review discusses the importance of a multidisciplinary approach throughout optimal care pathways for LA-HNSCC. Additionally, it identifies and discusses key unmet clinical needs associated with the multidisciplinary approach for LA-HNSCC in Australia. This includes further investigations into pre-habilitation and individualized follow-up protocols, and the development of biomarkers to enable selection of patients for the most appropriate treatment modality and predict response and relapse. Furthermore, there are inadequate supports to enable critical survivorship care and significant inequity in access to care across Australia. This is especially true in regional and rural areas, and urgent interventions to improve equity of access and surveillance in these populations are required.
Prof Eng Ooi is one of the co-authors on this paper which is available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajco.70005