Uninsured and Medicaid patients with head and neck cancers present with more advanced disease, receive suboptimal treatment and suffer outcomes that are significantly worse than they are among privately insured patients, researchers have found.
Investigators at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia queried the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database for diagnoses of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, pharynx and larynx between 2007 and