Tongue cancer: Do patients younger than 40 do worse?

Australian Dental Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-54

  Hyam, D M ^a   Conway, R C ^a   Sathiyaseelan, Y ^a   Gebski, V ^a   Morgan, G J ^a   Walker, D M ^b   Veness, M J ^a,c  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Squamos cell carcinoma; Tongue cancer; Young patient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

EID: 0348147425     PISSN: 00450421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1834-7819.2003.tb00009.x     Document Type: Article

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