Systemic inflammation is an independent predictive marker of clinical outcomes in mucosal squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in oropharyngeal and non-oropharyngeal patients

BMC Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Charles, Kellie A ^a   Harris, Benjamin D W ^a   Haddad, Carol R ^b   Clarke, Stephen J ^b,c   Guminski, Alex ^b   Stevens, Mark ^b,c   Dodds, Tristan ^b,d   Gill, Anthony J ^b,d   Back, Michael ^b,c   Veivers, David ^b   Eade, Thomas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; Overall survival; Prognosis; Recurrence free survival; Systemic inflammation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; NON OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION; CYTOLOGY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84959288111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2089-4     Document Type: Article

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