Oropharyngeal cancer is no longer a disease of younger patients and the prognostic advantage of Human Papillomavirus is attenuated among older patients: Analysis of the National Cancer Database

Oropharyngeal cancer is no longer a disease of younger patients and the prognostic advantage of Human Papillomavirus is attenuated among older patients: Analysis of the National Cancer Database

Objectives: HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) patients have been observed to be younger than patients with HPV-negative OPC at diagnosis. We evaluated recent trends in age at OPC diagnosis, and whether older age attenuates the survival benefit of HPV-positive tumor status. Materials and method...

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Main Authors: D'Souza, G. (Author), Eisele, D.W (Author), El Asmar, M. (Author), Fakhry, C. (Author), Faraji, F. (Author), Fung, N. (Author), Rettig, E.M (Author), Zaidi, M. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2018
Subjects:
adult
age
Age Factors
aged
Aged
Aging
Alphapapillomavirus
Article
cancer palliative therapy
cancer staging
complication
Elderly
female
follow up
head and neck cancer
Head and neck cancer
human
Human papillomavirus
Humans
isolation and purification
major clinical study
male
middle aged
Middle Aged
mouth cancer
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms
oropharynx cancer
Oropharynx cancer
oropharynx tumor
overall survival
papillomavirus infection
Papillomavirus Infections
priority journal
prognosis
Prognosis
sex difference
Survival
virology
virus attenuation
Wart virus
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