Impact of Delay in Treatment Initiation on Overall Survival in Laryngeal Cancers

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 651-657

  Kompelli, Anvesh Reddy ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Neskey, David Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck cancer; laryngeal cancer: quality of care; time to treatment initiation; treatment delay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CDCC SCORE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURSIVE PARTITION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME TO TREATMENT INITIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; LARYNX TUMOR; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME TO TREATMENT;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 85061205849     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599818803330     Document Type: Article

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