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ArticleCancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2017

Medical Care Cost of Oropharyngeal Cancer among Texas Patients.

David R Lairson, Chi-Fang Wu, Wenyaw Chan, Kristina R Dahlstrom, Samantha Tam, Erich M Sturgis

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Article in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Redefining oropharyngeal cancer in the HPV era: integrating precision medicine and immunotherapeutic frontiers.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  4. Healthcare costs in patients with head and neck cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

David R LairsonDepartment of Management, Policy, and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas. David.R.Lairson@uth.tmc.edu.
Chi-Fang WuDepartment of Management, Policy, and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
Wenyaw ChanDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
Kristina R DahlstromDivision of Surgery, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Samantha TamDivision of Surgery, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Erich M SturgisDivision of Surgery, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cohort StudiesFemaleHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedOropharyngeal NeoplasmsRetrospective StudiesTexas

Identifiers

PMID28838945
PMCPMC5903433

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