Front. Oncol. Frontiers in Oncology Front. Oncol. 2234-943X Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fonc.2026.1805179 Correction Correction: Real-world treatment patterns and clinical outcomes among elderly patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in the United States ZhengDandan 1 * Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Project administration Supervision Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing ZhangSu 2 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Project administration Resources Visualization Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing BidadiBehzad 3 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing LermanNati 3 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing SongYan 2 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Project administration Resources Supervision Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing SongRui 2 Data curation Formal analysis Resources Software Visualization Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing LiJiayang 2 Data curation Formal analysis Resources Software Visualization Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing ZhuAnyu 2 Data curation Formal analysis Resources Software Visualization Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing TangYuexin 1 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing SignorovitchJames 2 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing MerchantSanjay 1 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing HannaGlenn J. 4 Conceptualization Investigation Methodology Validation Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing Outcomes Research, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, United States Analysis Group, Inc., Boston, MA, United States Oncology Late Stage Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, United States Center for Head and Neck Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States Correspondence: Dandan Zheng, dandan.zheng@merck.com 17 02 2026 2026 16 1805179 05 02 2026 06 02 2026 05 02 2026 Copyright © 2026 Zheng, Zhang, Bidadi, Lerman, Song, Song, Li, Zhu, Tang, Signorovitch, Merchant and Hanna. 2026 Zheng, Zhang, Bidadi, Lerman, Song, Song, Li, Zhu, Tang, Signorovitch, Merchant and Hanna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Real-world treatment patterns and clinical outcomes among elderly patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in the United States By Zheng D, Zhang S, Bidadi B, Lerman N, Song Y, Song R, Li J, Zhu A, Tang Y, Signorovitch J, Merchant S and Hanna GJ (2025) Front. Oncol. 15:1606990. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1606990 event-free survival head and neck squamous cell carcinoma locoregionally advanced medicare overall survival real world treatment patterns section-at-acceptance Head and Neck Cancer

There was a mistake in Figure 1 as published. In the patient selection flow chart, the inequality symbols (≥) were incorrectly displayed as question marks (?), which affected the inclusion-criteria text (e.g., “Age ≥ 66 years” and the continuous enrollment criteria). The corrected Figure 1 appears below.

Sample selection of LA HNSCC patients.

Flowchart illustrating patient selection for a study of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma using SEER registry records from 2007 to 2019, detailing inclusion and exclusion criteria to produce resected and unresected cohorts of 626 and 1,554 patients, respectively.

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