作者: Kathleen Lang , Joseph Menzin , Craig C. Earle , Jerilynn Jacobson , Ming-Ann Hsu
DOI: 10.1001/ARCHOTOL.130.11.1269
关键词: Oncology 、 Surgery 、 Cohort study 、 Cancer staging 、 Medicine 、 Head and neck cancer 、 Retrospective cohort study 、 Chemotherapy regimen 、 Cancer 、 Epidemiology 、 Internal medicine 、 Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma
摘要: Objective To evaluate the excess mortality, resource use, and costs associated with squamous cell carcinoma of head neck (SCCHN) among elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Design Retrospective cohort analysis using data from Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) Program National Cancer Institute claims. Subjects Study cohorts included patients aged 65 years older who were newly diagnosed as having SCCHN in a SEER registry between 1991 1993 (N = 4536) controls matched 1:1 by age sex. Patients followed up for 5 or until death, whichever occurred first. Initial treatment was primarily surgery and/or radiation early-stage SCCHN, only modest use chemotherapy. had significantly ( P Conclusion These results suggest that health economic burden is substantial, are comparable higher than those other solid tumors.