Poor survival for American indians with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 265-271

  Dwojak, Sunshine M ^a   Finkelstein, Dianne M ^b   Emerick, Kevin S ^a   Lee, John H ^c   Petereit, Daniel G ^d   Deschler, Daniel G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SANFORD RESEARCH   (United States)

^d RAPID CITY REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; disparities; head and neck cancer; human papillomavirus

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS DNA TEST; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; SEX; SMOKING; WART VIRUS; ADULT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH DAKOTA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH DAKOTA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904889660     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599814533083     Document Type: Article

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