Insurance status, stage of presentation, and survival among female patients with head and neck cancer
Panth N, Simpson MC, Sethi RKV, Varvares MA, Osazuwa‐Peters N. Insurance status, stage of presentation, and survival among female patients with head and neck cancer. The Laryngoscope 2019, 130: 385-391. PMID: 30900256, DOI: 10.1002/lary.27929.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth insurance statusInsurance statusNeck cancerIncidence trendsFemale patientsGray proportional hazards modelsAdvanced stage HNCAdvanced stage presentationDisease-specific survivalEnd Results (SEER) databaseRetrospective cohort studyLate-stage diseaseOutcome of headStage of presentationProportional hazards modelJoinpoint regression analysisStage IV HNCStage diseaseCohort studyResults databaseHNC patientsPrimary headHazards modelPatientsMedicaid