Patients with oropharyngeal cancer: A comparison of adults living independently and patients living in long-term care facilities

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 124-130

  Epstein, Joel B ^a,b   Lunn, Ruth ^b   Le, Nhu D ^b   Stevenson Moore, Peter ^b   Gorsky, Meir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Institutionalized adults; Oral cancer; Prognosis; Staging; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; ADOLESCENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18244394538     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2005.tb01422.x     Document Type: Article

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