[Cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract: the particular case of nasopharyngeal cancer].

Nasopharyngeal carcinomas belong -in France- to the spectrum of rare diseases with several specificities owing to their etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and therapeutics compared with other head and neck tumors. Educating physicians about the diagnostic and therapeutic elements of NPC and its functional consequences allows these patients to be better diagnosed and followed up during and after specific oncological treatment, and to enlighten them about the therapeutic options, in particular conformal radiotherapy, the mainstay of the management, and particularly effective systemic treatments. Prospects for treatment and follow-up are emerging, related or not to the specificity of this tumor often induced by the Epstein-Barr virus.

[Sinonasal cancers].

Sinonasal cancers. Sinonasal cancers (SNC) belong to the spectrum of rare tumors, with respect to other tumors of the head and neck and intrinsically by the multiple histological entities that they cover. It is important to raise awareness among physicians about the diagnostic and therapeutic elements of SNC, as well as their functional consequences, so that these patients are better diagnosed and monitored during and following specific oncological treatment.