Can predictive factors determine the time to treatment initiation for oral and oropharyngeal cancer? A classification and regression tree analysis

• Débora Rosana Alves Braga Silva Montagnoli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Débora Rosana Alves Braga Silva Montagnoli, Edmilson Antônio Pereira Junior, Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu, Renata Castro Martins

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4884-075X

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• Vitória Ferreira Leite ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ VFL, YSG, VML and AC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Yasmim Silva Godoy ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ VFL, YSG, VML and AC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Vitória Marçolla Lafetá ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ VFL, YSG, VML and AC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Technical High School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Edmilson Antônio Pereira Junior ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Débora Rosana Alves Braga Silva Montagnoli, Edmilson Antônio Pereira Junior, Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu, Renata Castro Martins

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation School of Education, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2837-4744

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• Akhilanand Chaurasia ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VFL, YSG, VML and AC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, King George´s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Débora Rosana Alves Braga Silva Montagnoli, Edmilson Antônio Pereira Junior, Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu, Renata Castro Martins

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinic, Dental Pathology and Surgery, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5134-3466

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• Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Débora Rosana Alves Braga Silva Montagnoli, Edmilson Antônio Pereira Junior, Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu, Renata Castro Martins

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8794-5725

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• Renata Castro Martins

  Contributed equally to this work with: Débora Rosana Alves Braga Silva Montagnoli, Edmilson Antônio Pereira Junior, Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu, Renata Castro Martins

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rcmartins05@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8911-0040

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