Anterior tongue cancer: Age is not a predictor of outcome and should not alter treatment

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 899-904

  Veness, Michael J ^a,b   Morgan, Gary J ^a   Sathiyaseelan, Yasoda ^a   Gebski, Val ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Oral cavity; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344628751     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2003.02818.x     Document Type: Article

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