The COVID-19 pandemic has not influenced survival outcomes of head and neck cancer squamous cell carcinomas in the West of Scotland: a retrospective cohort study.

BJC Rep · 2026 · PMC12960927 · PMID 41781658

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narrowly non-significantp = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

When evaluating case distributions by AJCC stage, a narrowly non-significant difference was observed among the cohorts ( p = 0.06).

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