Oncologic benefit of tonsillectomy in stage I and II tonsil cancer: A surveillance epidemiology and end results database review

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 362-366

  Holliday, Michael A ^a   Tavaluc, Raluca ^c   Zhuang, Tingting ^b   Wang, Hongkun ^b   Davidson, Bruce ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCAL EXCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONSIL CANCER; TONSILLECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876867473     PISSN: 21686181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2013.107     Document Type: Article

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