Management of the N0 neck in early stage oral squamous cell cancer: A modeling study of the cost-effectiveness

Oral Oncology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 771-777

  Govers, Tim M ^a   Takes, Robert P ^a   Baris Karakullukcu, M ^b   Hannink, Gerjon ^a   Merkx, Matthias A W ^a   Grutters, Janneke P C ^a   Rovers, Maroeska M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Decision support techniques; Gene expression profiling; Head and neck Neoplasms; Markov Chains; Mouth Neoplasms; Neck dissection; Quality adjusted life years; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; WATCHFUL WAITING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MOUTH TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; MOUTH NEOPLASMS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 84880056930     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: 18790593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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