The rise of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers in the United States

Carole Fakhry; Ezra Cohen

doi:10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-14-0425

The rise of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers in the United States

Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2015 Jan;8(1):9-11. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-14-0425. Epub 2014 Dec 2.

Authors

Carole Fakhry¹, Ezra Cohen²

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland. Milton J. Dance Jr. Head and Neck Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland. cfakhry@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California.

PMID: 25468833
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-14-0425

Abstract

This perspective highlights a study that reports an increasing proportion of human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer among blacks in recent calendar periods. The results are discussed in the context of other studies which evaluated racial differences in the distribution of human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer and survival.

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MeSH terms

Female
Human papillomavirus 16*
Humans
Male
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / ethnology*
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / virology*
Papillomavirus Infections / ethnology*