Influence of sex on survival rates of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers

The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) status for the prognosis of oropharyngeal cancers (OPCs) is discussed controversially. Here, we present an analysis of 144,969 head and neck cancer cases (ICD-10 codes: C00–C13) with a sub-cohort of 62,775 tumor cases of the oropharynx (C01, C09, and C10). To t...

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Main Authors: Sally H. Preissner, Susanne Nahles, Saskia Preissner, Max Heiland, Steffen Koerdt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2022.917890/full