A study of older patients with advanced head and neck cancers found that where they were treated significantly influenced their survival. The study, led by researchers at the Hutchinson Center and published in Cancer, revealed that patients who were treated at hospitals that saw a high number of head and neck cancers were 15 percent less likely to die of their disease as compared to patients who were treated at hospitals that saw a relatively low number of such cancers. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Sharma A, et al. Hospital volume is associated with survival but not multimodality therapy in Medicare patients with advanced head and neck cancer. Cancer. 2013 Mar 1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23456789
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