Treatment Patterns in Veterans with Laryngeal and Oropharyngeal Cancer and Impact on Survival.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Veterans with laryngeal and oropharyngeal cancer remain an understudied patient population despite a high incidence of disease and decreased survival compared to the general population. Our objective was to evaluate treatment patterns for laryngeal and oropharyngeal cancer in patients treated at one of the Veterans Health Administration's busiest cancer centers in order to generate some basic benchmarks for treatment delivery in the veteran population.

Methods

We reviewed 338 patients treated at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center between 2000 and 2012.

Results

Oropharyngeal site and advanced age were associated with worse overall and disease-free survival. Treatment periods (mean) were as follows: 1) referral-diagnosis, 26 days; 2) diagn

SUBMITTER: Richardson PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6119785 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature