Global burden, health inequalities and improvement gap of head and neck cancers in middle-aged and older adults from 1990 to 2021

• Minxia Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shaoxing People’s Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China

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• Feng Xuan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhuji Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Shaoxing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5079-4385

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• Xiaofeng Ma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Zhuji Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Shaoxing, China

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• Zhaoqi Qiu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: qzzdbd@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhuji Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Shaoxing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8286-7300

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