Racial differences in stage and survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Racial differences in stage and survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
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DOI:
10.1097/mlg.0b013e318033c800
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发表时间:
2007-05-01
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影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Bhattacharyya, Neil
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作者:
Nichols, Anthony C.;Bhattacharyya, Neil
Objectives. The goal of this study was to characterize differences in survival between black patients and white patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCCA). Design. Cases of oral tongue and glottic SCCA in black patients or white patients were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (years 1988-2002). For each primary site, TNM staging was imputed, and staging distributions were compared between races. For each black patient, a randomly selected white control was matched for age at diagnosis, sex, stage, surgical treatment, and radiation. Kaplan-Meier survival comparisons for both overall and disease-specific survival were then conducted for the matched pairs. Results. From 1,919 cases of carcinoma of the oral tongue, those of 151 black and 1,768 white patients were extracted. Black patients had a significantly elevated T stage (P =.001) and N stage (P =.002) at primary presentation. Of glottic carcinoma, 4,578 cases (625 black and 3,953 white patients) were extracted. Black patients again presented with significantly elevated T stage (P