Smoking, age, nodal disease, T stage, p16 status, and risk of distant metastases in patients with squamous cell cancer of the oropharynx.
Jonathan J BeitlerJeffrey M SwitchenkoJames J DignamMark W McDonaldNabil F SabaDong M ShinKelly R MaglioccaRichard J CassidyMark W El-DeiryMihir R PatelConor E SteuerCanhua XiaoPatricia A HudginsAshley H AikenWalter J CurranQuynh-Thu LePublished in: Cancer (2018)
Age, smoking, N3 disease, T4 disease, and a negative p16 status were associated with the development of distant metastases in patients with squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx treated definitively with concurrent chemoradiation.