Impact of socioeconomic status on the diagnosis to treatment interval in Waldeyer's ring carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1283-1287

  Munck, Karsten ^a   Ali, Mir Jafer ^a   Murr, Andrew H ^a   Goldberg, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Base of tongue cancer; Head and neck cancer; Nasopharyngeal cancer; Public hospital; Socioeconomic disparity; Tertiary care hospital; Tonsil cancer; Waldeyer's ring cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; ONCOLOGY; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; TONSIL CANCER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WALDEYER RING;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BIOPSY; CALIFORNIA; CARCINOMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 21844461325     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLG.0000165382.83891.92     Document Type: Review

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