ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2016
Race and sex disparities in long-term survival of oral and oropharyngeal cancer in the United States.
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- Race and socioeconomic status interact with HPV to influence survival disparities in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- Establishment of a diverse head and neck squamous cancer cell bank using conditional reprogramming culture methods.Journal of medical virology · 2023Article
- Enhancing Self-care Among Oral Cancer Survivors: Protocol for the Empowered Survivor Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
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- Association between Sociodemographic Factors, Coverage and Offer of Health Services with Mortality Due to Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer in Brazil: A 20-Year Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Racial disparity and prognosis in patients with mouth and oropharynx cancer in Brazil.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2022Article
- Oral Health Service Access in Racial/Ethnic Minority Neighborhoods: A Geospatial Analysis in Washington, DC, USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the effect of race and sex on long-term survival of oral and oropharyngeal cancer.
methodsThe Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database was queried for adult oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients with at least 25-year follow-up. Kaplan-Meier survival curves and cox proportional hazards model were used to identify differences.
resultsOf the 22,162 patients identified, 70.3% were males. Only 8.9% were alive at 25 years post-diagnosis. Black males show the poorest overall and disease-specific survival rates (p < 0.001). After controlling for covariates, Blacks had a 40% higher hazard of mortality compared with Whites (HR 1.40, 95% CI 1.35-1.46), while females had a 9% reduction in mortality risk (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.88-0.94).
conclusionsOverall and disease-specific survival is poor for oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients, and Black men fare worst. This illustrates the need for long-term cancer survival plans incorporating disparity effects in overall cancer outcomes.
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