Predictors of IMRT and conformal radiotherapy use in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A SEER-medicare analysis

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sher, David J ^a,b   Neville, Bridget A ^b   Chen, Aileen B ^a,b   Schrag, Deborah ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Health services research; IMRT; Patterns of care

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; CENSUS TRACTS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HEAD-AND-NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTIVARIABLE ANALYSIS; PATTERNS OF CARE; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; TREATMENT VOLUMES;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INCOME; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICARE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONSIL CANCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SEER PROGRAM; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80255137554     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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