Detection of circulating HPV16 DNA as a biomarker in the blood of patients with human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Agnieszka M MazurekTomasz RutkowskiMirosław ŚnieturaWojciech PigłowskiRafał SuwińskiKrzysztof Składowski

Published in: Head & neck (2018)

Many factors were responsible for human papillomavirus DNA circulation in blood. As a result of the small size of the analyzed group, some observed discrepancies need to be proven on a larger cohort.

Keyphrases

squamous cell carcinoma
circulating tumor
cell free
single molecule
high grade
nucleic acid
label free
circulating tumor cells
lymph node metastasis
locally advanced
sensitive detection