The emerging risk of oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancer in HPV-related subsites in young people in Brazil.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for the rise in the incidence of cancer in the oropharynx, tonsils, and base of the tongue (i.e., HPV-related subsites). HPV triggered the changes in the epidemiology of oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancer (OPC/OCC) in Asia, Europe, North America, and Ocean...

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Main Authors: Fabrício Dos Santos Menezes, Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre, Gleice Margarete de Souza Conceição, Maria Paula Curado, José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes, Tatiana Natasha Toporcov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232871