Johns Hopkins Medicine: Community Cancer Care Linked With Poorer Outcomes for Some HeadNeck Cancers
January 04, 2024
January 04, 2024
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 4 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release:
Care for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx (an area in back of the throat) is shifting toward community cancer centers, but patients treated in this setting may be less likely to survive, according to new research by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Head and Neck Cancer Center.
The study . . .
Care for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx (an area in back of the throat) is shifting toward community cancer centers, but patients treated in this setting may be less likely to survive, according to new research by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Head and Neck Cancer Center.
The study . . .