Is sex an independent prognostic factor in cutaneous head and neck melanoma?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1363-1367

  Arce, Paolo M ^a   Camilon, P Ryan ^a   Stokes, William A ^a   Nguyen, Shaun A ^a   Lentsch, Eric J ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

cutaneous; disease specific survival; head; melanoma; neck; Sex; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DATA BASE; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HAZARD RATIO; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUN EXPOSURE; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY;

CUTANEOUS; DISEASE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; HEAD; MELANOMA; NECK; SEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901650807     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24439     Document Type: Article

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