## Abstract Despite recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer, there has been little evidence of improvement in 5βyear survival rates over the last few decades. To determine more accurate trends in siteβspecific outcomes as opposed to a more general overview of head and
Head and neck cancer in Germany: a site-specific analysis of survival of the Thuringian cancer registration database
β Scribed by Orlando Guntinas-Lichius; Thomas Wendt; Jens Buentzel; Dirk Esser; Peter Lochner; Andreas Mueller; Stefan Schultze-Mosgau; Annelore Altendorf-Hofmann
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 523 KB
- Volume
- 136
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1335
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