ArticleHead & neck2025
Advanced Stage Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis: HEADSpAcE Consortium Health Systems Benchmarking Survey.
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- JADE: phase 3 study of sequential dostarlimab post chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced unresected HNSCC.Future oncology (London, England) · 2026Trial
- Health System Factors in Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis: A HEADSpAcE Consortium Qualitative Study in Glasgow and Montevideo.Head & neck · 2026Article
- Patient Perceptions and Type 1 Delay in Head and Neck Cancer: A Scoping Review of High- and Low-/Middle-Income Countries.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2026Review
- Ipilimumab, -omics, and head and neck cancers-update in 2025.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Methylation-regulated miR-374a-5p and miR-374b-5p suppress glycolysis and malignant progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by targeting DEPDC1.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundGlobally, most people with head and neck cancers (HNCs) are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease. HNC diagnostic stage has multifactorial explanations, with the role of health system factors not yet fully investigated.
methodsHNC centres (n = 18) from the HEADSpAcE Consortium were surveyed via a bespoke health system questionnaire covering a range of factors. Centres were compared using the least square means for the presence/absence of each health system factor to their proportion of advanced-stage HNC.
resultsHealth system factors associated with lower proportion in advanced-stage diagnosis were formal referral triaging (14%, 95% CI-0.26, -0.03), routine monitoring of time from referral to diagnosis (16%, 95% CI-0.27, -0.05), and fully publicly funded systems (17%, 95% CI-0.29, -0.06). Several health systems factors had no routinely available data.
conclusionsThrough identifying and monitoring health systems factors associated with lower proportions of advanced stage HNC, interventions could be developed, and systems redesigned, to improve early diagnosis.
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