Oropharynx Cancer compliance with NCCN guidelines
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Findings: There were 153 cases of mucosal head and neck cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2009. The 2009 cases have only been fully abstracted through October when this report was run. Of the 153 cases coded to head and neck, there were 3 cases of lymphoma and one Kaposis’s sarcoma which were excluded from this analysis leaving 149 head and neck cancers of mucosal origin for this study. The study was further defined by anatomical site groups. The following is a distribution of these groups.
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