Outcome and prognostic factors in T4a oropharyngeal carcinoma, including the role of HPV infection.
Georgios PsychogiosKonstantinos MantsopoulosAbbas AgaimyKathrin BrunnerElisabeth MangoldJohannes ZenkHeinrich IroPublished in: BioMed research international (2014)
The survival of p16-negative patients was worse than p16-positive patients, although they seem to respond better to primary surgery. The strongest independent prognostic factor for T4a carcinomas proved to be the presence of lymph node metastases.
Keyphrases
- prognostic factors
- end stage renal disease
- lymph node
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- squamous cell carcinoma
- peritoneal dialysis
- high grade
- early stage
- radiation therapy
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery bypass
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- sentinel lymph node
- cervical cancer screening