Mortality patterns of patients with tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) and second primary malignancies (SPMs) are the most common causes of mortality in patients with primary TSCC. However, the competing data on TSCC-specific death (TSD) or SPM-related death in patients with TSCC have not been evaluated. This study aimed to analyze the mortality patterns and formulate prediction models of mortality risk caused by TSCC and SPMs.

Methods

Data on patients with a first diagnosis of TSCC were extracted as the training cohort from the 18 registries comprising the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. A competing risk approach of cumulation incidence function was used to estimate cumulative incidence curves. Fine and gray proportional sub-distributed hazard model analyses were p

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733501 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature