Using TNM staging to predict survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck

Head and Neck

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 30-38

  Hall, Stephen F ^a,b   Groome, Patti A ^a   Rothwell, Deanna ^a   Dixon, Peter F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOTEL DIEU HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Multivariate analysis; Prognosis; TNM stage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0032961712     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199901)21:1<30::AID-HED4>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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