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ArticleCancers2025

The Importance of a Definite Diagnosis for Rational Treatment and Prognosis of Head and Neck Tumors.

Alfio Ferlito, Alfons Nadal, Göran Stenman, Nina Zidar, Henrik Hellquist, Piet J Slootweg, Roderick H W Simpson, Antonio Cardesa

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Article in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alfio FerlitoInternational Head and Neck Scientific Group, 35100 Padua, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8247-8002
Alfons NadalDepartment of Pathology, Hospital Clinic, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5366-093X
Göran StenmanDepartment of Laboratory Medicine/Pathology, Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Nina ZidarFaculty of Medicine, Institute of Pathology, University of Ljubljana, Korytkova 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0001-6866-3220
Henrik HellquistDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, ABC-RI, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.ORCID 0009-0000-9998-8212
Piet J SlootwegRadboud University Medical Center, 6511HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Roderick H W SimpsonDepartment of Anatomical Pathology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 2T9, Canada.
Antonio CardesaUniversitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Benign and malignant head and neck tumors are common worldwide and cause mortality and morbidity with variations in population prevalence [...].

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