Improvements in survival and disparities for advanced-stage laryngeal cancer

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 169-173

  LeBlanc, Blake Joseph ^a   Shi, Runhua ^b   Mehta, Vikas ^a   Mills, Glenn ^b   Ampil, Federico ^b   Nathan, Cherie Ann O ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; ANCESTRY GROUP; CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LOUISIANA; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923266542     PISSN: 21686181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2014.2998     Document Type: Article

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