Advanced stage of head and neck cancer at a tertiary-care county hospital

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1473-1477

  Patel, Urjeet A ^a   Lynn Macrae, Alastair ^b   Rosen, Fred ^a   Holloway, Nathaniel ^a   Kern, Robert ^b  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer demographics; County hospitals; Equal access facility; Head and neck cancer; Stage at presentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISPANIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746825921     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000227448.71894.8c     Document Type: Article

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