Racial parities in outcomes after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 244-252

  Liu, Gene Fu F ^a   Ranck, Mark C ^a   Solanki, Abhishek A ^a   Cao, Hongyuan ^a   Kolokythas, Antonia ^b   Wenig, Barry L ^b   Chen, Lucy ^b   Ard, Stephanie ^b   Weichselbaum, Ralph R ^a,b   Halpern, Howard ^a,b   Spiotto, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck neoplasms; minority groups; minority health; outcomes assessment; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEGRO; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84891844548     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28417     Document Type: Article

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