Perioperative Blood Transfusion Is Dose-Dependently Associated with Cancer Recurrence and Mortality after Head and Neck Cancer Surgery.

Cancers (Basel) · 2022 · PMC9817502 · PMID 36612096

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of borderline significancep = 0.059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The association of perioperative transfusion and cancer recurrence after surgery for head and neck cancer was of borderline significance (adjusted HR = 1.4, 95% CI: 0.99~1.97, p = 0.059) after the adjustment for these significant predictors. 3.2.

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