Effect of comorbidity on post-treatment quality of life scores in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 907-914

  Gourin, Christine G ^a   Boyce, Brian J ^b   Vaught, Creighton C ^b   Burkhead, Lori M ^b   Podolsky, Robert H ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Head and neck neoplasms; Quality of life; Squamous cell cancer; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 66349085345     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20199     Document Type: Article

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