United States: Survival Differences In American Indians With Head And Neck Cancer

United States: Survival Differences In American Indians With Head And Neck Cancer Sunshine M. Dwojak, Thomas Sequist, Daniel G. Deschler, and Kevin S. Emerick, 2011   Objective: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience poor overall survival. The specific aim of this study was to analyze disparities in survival between AI/AN and white patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.   Method: We identified all incident cases of oropharyngeal, oral cavity, and...

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