Improved survival is associated with treatment at high-volume teaching facilities for patients with advanced stage laryngeal cancer

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4744-4752

  Chen, Amy Y ^a,b   Fedewa, Stacey ^a   Pavluck, Alex ^a,c   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Laryngeal cancer; Laryngectomy; Survival; Volume

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIGH VOLUME TEACHING FACILITY; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; ADOLESCENT; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DATA BASE; LARYNX TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78349286962     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25364     Document Type: Article

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