A Nomogram for Predicting the Risk of Bone Metastasis in Newly Diagnosed Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Real-World Data Retrospective Cohort Study From SEER Database.

ABSTRACT: Background: Bone metastasis (BM) is one of the typical metastatic types of head and neck cancer (HNC). The occurrence of BM prevents the HNC patients from obtaining a long survival period. Early assessment of the possibility of BM could bring more therapy options for HNC patients, as well as a longer overall survival time. This study aims to identify independent BM risk factors and develop a diagnostic nomogram to predict BM risk in HNC patients. Methods: Patients diagnosed with HNC between 2010 and 2015 were retrospectively evaluated in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, and then eligible patients were enrolled in our study. First, those patients were randomly assigned to training and validation sets in a 7:3 ratio. Second, univariate and multiv

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189363 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature