Impact of human papillomavirus on outcome in patients with oropharyngeal cancer treated with primary surgery.
Martina A Broglie DäppenSandro J StoeckliRafael SauterPhilippe PascheAntoine ReinhardLaurence de LevalGerhard F HuberThomas F PezierAlex SoltermannRoland GigerAndreas ArnoldMatthias DettmerAndre ArnouxMartin MüllerStefan SpreitzerFlorian LangMathieu LutchmayaEdouard StaufferVittoria EspeliFrancesco MartucciMassimo BongiovanniDiana FoerbsWolfram JochumPublished in: Head & neck (2017)
Nonsmokers with HPV-positive oropharyngeal SCC have a better prognosis than smokers with HPV-positive oropharyngeal SCC and also than patients with HPV-negative tumors when treated by surgery alone.