Washington University School of Medicine
Survival of head and neck cancer patients is greatly affected by coexisting ailments
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 5th, 2008
This highlights a broader problem with cancer survival statistics, which generally don't take into account the effect of co-existing conditions, or comorbidities, according to Piccirillo.
In a recent study, Piccirillo, director of the Clinical Outcomes Research Office at Washington University...
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