Smoking and papillomavirus DNA in patients with p16-positive N3 oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Philippe GorpheYounes Chekkoury IdrissiYungan TaoAntoine Moya-PlanaOdile CasiraghiFrançois JanotPierre BlanchardHaïtham MirghaniStéphane Temam

Published in: Head & neck (2018)

Patients with an N3 p16-positive oropharyngeal cancer in our series had a 5-year OS rate of 67.5%. Smoking history and viral DNA were prognostic factors associated with survival.

Keyphrases

circulating tumor
squamous cell carcinoma
cell free
smoking cessation
single molecule
papillary thyroid
sars cov
lymph node metastasis
squamous cell
nucleic acid
radiation therapy
young adults