Survival of head and neck cancer patients is greatly affected by coexisting ailments
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
Current estimates for head and neck cancer survival are largely inaccurate because they widely disregard many of the most common diseases such patients have in addition to their primary cancer, says Jay Piccirillo, M.D., a head and neck specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Siteman Cancer Centre and Barnes-Jewish Hospital...
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