Determinants of head and neck cancer survival by race

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1092-1098

  Ragin, Camille C ^a,b   Langevin, Scott M ^b   Marzouk, Mark ^c   Grandis, Jennifer ^c   Taioli, Emanuela ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; head and neck cancer; outcome; racial disparities; survival

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LARYNX TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960401915     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21584     Document Type: Article

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