National treatment patterns in patients presenting with Stage IVC head and neck cancer: analysis of the National Cancer Database

Cancer Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1828-1835

  Schwam, Zachary G ^a   Burtness, Barbara ^a   Yarbrough, Wendell G ^a   Mehra, Saral ^a   Husain, Zain ^a   Judson, Benjamin L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials as topic; head and neck cancer; neoplasm metastases; outcomes assessments; palliative care

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84996443385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.546     Document Type: Article

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