Towards further understanding of prognostic factors for head and neck cancer patients: The example of hypopharyngeal cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 696-702

  Hall, Stephen F ^a,b,e   Groome, Patti A ^a,b   Irish, Jonathan ^c   O'sullivan, Brian ^d  

^a Departments of Otolaryngology and Oncology   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hypopharynx cancer; Performance status; Prognostic factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ALCOHOLISM; BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65249083321     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20112     Document Type: Article

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