Addressing the Neck: An NCDB Study of Clinically Node-Negative Supraglottic Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Objective: Identify the proportion of patients undergoing elective neck dissection (END) in surgically managed supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma (SCCa), assess associations between patient, tumor, and treatment factors with END, and assess associations between neck management and overall survival (OS).

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: National Cancer Database (NCDB) 2019 Participant User File.