Local control, overall survival, nodal failure, and distant failure were not affected by fractionation. Chest wall toxicity was more common with 60-Gy group.
Incorporation of PNI and differentiation better reflect prognostic outcome in oral cavity tumors classified as T1 to T2 as per the new AJCC eighth edition. Increasing adverse pathological features resulted in worse survival.
How does insurance expansion affect the rate of thyroidectomy for treating thyroid cancer? Findings In this study using difference-indifferences models, the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform was associated with a 26% increased rate of thyroidectomy for treating thyroid cancer and a 21% increased rate of neck dissection among patients with cancer compared with control states. Meaning In Massachusetts, the expansion of health care results in an increased treatment of thyroid cancer.
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