Table 5.

Median values of the highest quality studies in head and neck (H&N) disease annual rate parameters

Parameter	Median value (low, high)a	References
Cure rate of distant H&N cancer	0.4231 (–)	Posner et al. [64]
Cure rate of local H&N cancer	0.3006 (–)	Posner et al. [64]
Cure rate of regional H&N cancer	0.4828 (0.4605, 0.5051)	Samuels et al. [65]
Rate of distant H&N cancer-associated death	0.0347 (0.0220, 0.0772)	Fujita et al. [66]
Rate of local H&N cancer-associated death	0.0202 (–)	Miah et al. [67]
Rate of progression from local to regional H&N cancer	0.0325 (–)	Mendenhall et al. [68]
Rate of progression from regional to distant H&N cancer	0.0320 (–)	Sims et al. [69]
Rate of regional H&N cancer-associated death	0.0764 (0.0351, 0.1155)	Samuels et al. [65]

H&N head and neck

^aRates are in units of 1/years. For parameters with only one value reported in their high-quality study, the ranges were represented as “(–)”