Survival differences among American Indians/Alaska natives with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1114-1118

  Dwojak, Sunshine M ^a   Sequist, Thomas D ^b   Emerick, Kevin ^a   Deschler, Daniel G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; cancer; disparities; outcomes; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AMERICAN INDIANS; CANCER; DISPARITIES; OUTCOMES; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; ALASKA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84880699436     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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