Gender Disparity in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

Gender Disparity in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

09/06/2018

CHICAGO—Women and men were treated differently for the same tumor stages of head and neck cancer (HNC) and had different outcomes in a study with patients surveyed over a fifteen-year period in Santa Clara, California. The findings—using the generalized competing event (GCE) assessment model that balanced the risk of cancer death against non-cancer death—has prompted […]