… and delays in surgical care throughout the world. The impact of these surgical delays on
survival for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remains unknown. …

… to broader time to treatment packages. This work highlights the importance for surgical care
… risk factor which can improve survival outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer. …

… time on survival in patients with head and neck cancer. … Question Is there a survival benefit
to a shorter time from surgery … RT ) for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma? …

… survival (OS) impact from increasing time to treatment initiation (TTI) for patients with head
and neck squamous cell carcinoma … TTI independently affects survival. One in four patients …

… surgery to the initiation of postoperative radiotherapy, and/or treatment package time (TPT;
the time from surgery … the association between the treatment time interval and an oncologic …

… Cox regression analysis, and propensity score matching were used to determine the effects
of initiating PORT within 6 weeks of surgery and different time-to-PORT intervals on survival. …

… In current oncologic care, the focus on survival is also shifting toward quality of life (QoL)
after treatment. Even if no relationship between time-to-treatment intervals and survival …

… comorbidity in the survival model. When estimating the impact of RTT on overall survival in
the postoperative radiation cohort, we included time between surgery and radiation initiation …

… of the overall treatment package time (interval from surgery through the completion of …
time on survival and to evaluate this effect among different subgroups of head and neck cancer …

… However, in our study population, patients with stage I-II HNSCC reported shorted TTI than
those with stage III-IV cancer, including those undergoing surgery (median time: 19 days vs. …