Six-month mortality has decreased for patients with curative treatment intent for head and neck cancer in Sweden

• Charbél Talani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Charbel.talani@regionostergotland.se

  Affiliations Division of Sensory Organs and Communication, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Region Östergötland Anesthetics, Operations, and Specialty Surgery Center, Linköping, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0597-3883

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• Anders Högmo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Regional Cancer Center Western Sweden, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Göran Laurell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7760-246X

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• Antti Mäkitie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Research Program in Systems Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0451-2404

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• Lovisa Farnebo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Sensory Organs and Communication, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Region Östergötland Anesthetics, Operations, and Specialty Surgery Center, Linköping, Sweden

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