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Outcome of patients with head and neck cancers: 10‐year experience of a otorhinolaryngology – head and neck unit in a tertiary hospital of a developing country
Author(s) -
SHASHINDER S.,
CHOO P.K.,
GOPALA K.G.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00814.x
Subject(s) - medicine , otorhinolaryngology , head and neck cancer , head and neck , developing country , unit (ring theory) , head and neck surgery , general surgery , retrospective cohort study , tertiary care , cancer , surgery , economic growth , mathematics education , mathematics , economics
Being a rapidly developing country, a study was needed to see how we faired in treating head and neck cancer patients compared with international standards. Although being a retrospective study, this research shows that there is still a lot to be done in our developing nation in educating the general public about head and neck cancers as most of them presented in the later stages to us. There also needs to be a proper review about the treatment modality offered to patient as our survival results are far behind in certain categories of cancers compared with the developed nations.