Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 782-791

  Chen, Leon M ^a,c   Li, Guojun ^a   Reitzel, Lorraine R ^a,b   Pytynia, Kristen B ^d   Zafereo, Mark E ^a   Wei, Qingyi ^a   Sturgis, Erich M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449707781     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-09-0154     Document Type: Article

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