Gender and ethnic disparities in incidence and survival of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue, base of tongue, and tonsils: A surveillance, epidemiology and end results program-based analysis

Oncology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-20

  Saba, Nabil F ^a,c   Goodman, Michael ^b   Ward, Kevin ^b   Flowers, Chris ^a   Ramalingam, Suresh ^a   Owonikoko, Taofeek ^a   Chen, Amy ^c   Grist, William ^c   Wadsworth, Trad ^c   Beitler, Jonathan J ^c   Khuri, Fadlo R ^a   Shin, Dong M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic disparities in head and neck cancer; Gender disparities in head and neck cancer; Human papillomavirus; Oral tongue cancer; Oropharyngeal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CANCER; TONSIL CANCER; UNITED STATES; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052570003     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330807     Document Type: Article

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