Racial disparity in head and neck cancer

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Giovana R Thomas. Cancer. 2021.

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. 2021 Aug 1;127(15):2612-2613.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.33555. Epub 2021 Apr 2.

¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

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Keywords: African Americans; access to care; head and neck cancer; health care disparity; survival; time to treatment initiation.

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