Comorbidity is a prognostic factor in elderly patients with head and neck cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1449-1457

  Sanabria, Alvaro ^a,b   Carvalho, André Lopes ^a   Vartanian, José Guilherme ^a   Magrin, José ^a   Ikeda, Mauro Kasuo ^a   Kowalski, Luiz Paulo ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Aged; Comorbidity; Head and neck neoplasms; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYELOMA; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; OBESITY; PANCREAS DISEASE; PARALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; VEIN DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047235204     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9296-1     Document Type: Article

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