2014
Trends and variations in the use of adjuvant therapy for patients with head and neck cancer
Chen MM, Roman SA, Yarbrough WG, Burtness BA, Sosa JA, Judson BL. Trends and variations in the use of adjuvant therapy for patients with head and neck cancer. Cancer 2014, 120: 3353-3360. PMID: 25042524, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28870.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdjuvant therapyAdverse pathologic featuresAdjuvant chemoradiationPathologic featuresNeck cancerNational Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelinesNational Cancer Data BaseMedicare/Medicaid insuranceImproved overall survivalHospital-level factorsCox multivariate regressionLog-rank testMultivariate logistic regressionForm of radiotherapyQuality of careAdjuvant radiotherapyOverall survivalMedicaid insuranceNetwork guidelinesCancer CenterLaryngeal cancerPractice patternsChemoradiationOral cavityPatients
2013
Parotid gland lymphoma: Prognostic analysis of 2140 patients
Feinstein AJ, Ciarleglio MM, Cong X, Otremba MD, Judson BL. Parotid gland lymphoma: Prognostic analysis of 2140 patients. The Laryngoscope 2013, 123: 1199-1203. PMID: 23576299, DOI: 10.1002/lary.23901.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdolescentAdultAge DistributionAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleHumansIncidenceInfantInfant, NewbornKaplan-Meier EstimateLymphomaMaleMiddle AgedParotid NeoplasmsPrognosisProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesSEER ProgramSex DistributionSurvival RateUnited StatesYoung AdultConceptsParotid gland lymphomaFacial nerve sacrificeB-cell lymphomaNerve sacrificeHodgkin's lymphomaMarginal zone B-cell lymphomaEnd Results Program databaseKaplan-Meier survival curvesCox proportional hazards modelNon-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypesLarge B-cell lymphomaUS population-based dataRetrospective cohort studyRole of chemotherapyLog-rank testPopulation-based dataForm of surgeryProportional hazards modelCohort studyPatient agePathologic featuresPrognostic importanceMale genderProgram databaseLymphoma subtypes