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BACKGROUND
Patients covered by Medicaid insurance appear to have poorer cancer outcomes. Herein, the authors sought to test whether Medicaid was associated with worse outcomes among patients with head and neck cancer (HNC).
METHODS
The records of 1698 patients with squamous cell HNC without distant metastatic disease were retrospectively reviewed from an institutional database between 1998 and...
BACKGROUNDDetermining the optimal follow‐up for patients can help maximize the use of health care resources. This is particularly true in a growing epidemic such as human papillomavirus‐positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (HPV+OPSCC). The objective of the current study was to evaluate time to disease recurrence or late toxicity in this cohort of patients to optimize patient management....
BACKGROUNDDesmoplastic melanoma may have a high risk of local recurrence after wide excision. The authors hypothesized that adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) would improve local control in patients with desmoplastic melanoma, resulting in at least a 10% absolute decrease in local recurrence rate.
METHODSA total of 277 patients from 1989 through 2010 who were treated for nonmetastatic desmoplastic melanoma...
BACKGROUND:A recently published consensus guideline suggested a new endpoint for clinical trials involving cancer of the larynx and hypopharynx: laryngoesophageal dysfunction‐free survival (LEDFS). The authors of this report examined LEDFS in the context of definitive radiotherapy alone (RT) or with concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT).
METHODS:Patients with a stage III to IVB squamous cell carcinomas...
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