ArticleHead & neck2025
Impact of Postoperative Radiation Therapy Delay and Treatment Facility Location on Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.
Article in Head & neck, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Mechanisms Underlying an Enhanced Navigation-Based Intervention to Improve Timely Adjuvant Therapy: A Secondary Analysis of the NDURE Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2026Trial
- A Discharge Summary Prompt Reduces Postoperative Radiotherapy Delay in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.Head & neck · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundTime from surgery to initiation of postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) of less than 6 weeks was recently instituted as the first quality metric within head and neck cancer care.
methodsWe performed a retrospective single institution cohort study to investigate predictors of PORT delay and the impact of PORT delay on survival.
resultsPORT delay rate was 73.2%, with a median time to treatment initiation of 51 days. Outside radiation facility treatment was independently associated with increased likelihood of PORT delay (OR 1.94, 95% CI 1.03-3.74, p = 0.043). PORT delay and location of radiation treatment did not impact OS or PFS.
conclusionsIn this single institution study, most patients experienced PORT delay. Patients that were treated at outside radiation facilities were more likely to experience delay. However, PORT delay did not result in statistically significant difference in OS and PFS which contrasts with the current literature.
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