Association of Treatment at High-Volume Facilities With Survival in Patients Receiving Chemoradiotherapy for Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Vivek Verma; Pamela K. Allen; Charles B. Simone; Hiram A. Gay; Steven H. Lin

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2017.1874

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Association of Treatment at High-Volume Facilities With Survival in Patients Receiving Chemoradiotherapy for Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Vivek Verma, MD¹; Pamela K. Allen, PhD²; Charles B. Simone II, MD³; et al Hiram A. Gay, MD⁴; Steven H. Lin, MD, PhD²

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¹Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
²Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
³Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
⁴Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018;144(1):86-89. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2017.1874

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