| aHR | Adjusted hazard ratio |
| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| CCI | Charlson comorbidity index |
| CCRT | Concurrent chemoradiotherapy |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| HNSCC | Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| ICD-9-CM | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification |
| LA-OCSCC | Locally advanced oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma |
| NCCN | National Comprehensive Cancer Network |
| OCSCC | Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma |
| OS | Overall survival; PS, propensity score |
| PSM | Propensity score–matched |
| RCT | Randomized clinical trial |
| RT | Radiotherapy |
| TCRD | Taiwan Cancer Registry database |
| TNM | Tumor, node, metastasis |