Survival results of 3786 patients with stage I or II laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a study based on a propensity score
Author(s) -
Genival Barbosa de Carvalho,
Hugo Fontan Köhler,
Renan Bezerra Lira,
José Guilherme Vartanian,
Luiz Paulo Kowalski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.488
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1808-8694
pISSN - 1808-8686
DOI - 10.1016/j.bjorl.2020.06.007
Subject(s) - medicine , propensity score matching , stage (stratigraphy) , radiation therapy , confounding , population , malignancy , oncology , carcinoma , surgery , paleontology , environmental health , biology
Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma is the second most prevalent malignancy among head and neck tumors, and the treatment of patients with stage I or II disease can be performed with surgery or radiation therapy. National population studies describing therapeutic results comparing these modalities are unusual, but they can be very important to direct treatment guidelines.
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