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Wart virus makes for less deadly cancer

Friday, October 16, 2009

Source: www.montrealgazette.com Author: Maggie Fox A wart virus best known for causing cervical cancer may make for a less-deadly kind of head and neck cancer, researchers reported on Thursday. People whose head and neck tumours carried the human papillomavirus virus, or HPV, were 59 percent less likely to die than people whose tumours were not [...]

Low prevalence of HPV infection may be tied to poor prognosis for blacks with head and neck cancer

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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Source: www.eurekalert.org Author: public release Groundbreaking study seeks to explain major disparity in survival between blacks and whites Researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer have found that head and neck cancer patients who test positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have much better survival rates than patients who don’t have [...]

Genetic signatures of HPV-related and unrelated oropharyngeal carcinoma and their prognostic implications

Sunday, March 1, 2009

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Source: Clinical Cancer Research 15, 1779, March 1, 200 Author: Jens P. Klussmann et al. Purpose: Patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-containing oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) have a better prognosis than patients with HPV-negative OSCC. This may be attributed to different genetic pathways promoting cancer. Experimental Design: We used comparative genomic hybridization to identify critical [...]

Genetic signatures of HPV-related and unrelated oropharyngeal carcinoma and their prognostic implications

Sunday, February 22, 2009

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Source: Clinical Cancer Research, 10.1158/1078-0432 Authors: Jens P. K et al. Purpose: Patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-containing oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) have a better prognosis than patients with HPV-negative OSCC. This may be attributed to different genetic pathways promoting cancer. Experimental Design: We used comparative genomic hybridization to identify critical genetic changes in 60 [...]

Head and neck cancer worse in blacks

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Source: www.curetoday.com Author: staff African Americans and economically disadvantaged patients face a worse prognosis than other patients with head and neck cancer, according to a report in the journal Cancer. “The head and neck cancer manuscript is the first in a series of manuscripts we have written to examine disparities in cancer,” Dr. Michael Cheung [...]

Incidence and impact of comorbidity diagnosed after the onset of head and neck cancer

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Source: Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(10):1045-1049 Authors: Katherine C. Yung, MD; Jay F. Piccirillo, MD Objective: To investigate the incidence and prognostic impact of comorbidities diagnosed after the onset of head and neck cancer. Design: Retrospective review of medical records. Patients: One hundred eighty-three patients diagnosed as having head and neck cancer at Washington [...]

Racial disparities exist in head and neck cancer outcomes

Sunday, October 12, 2008

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Source: www.forbes.com Author: staff Blacks and the poor have worse outcomes when it comes to head and neck cancer, researchers say. In a new study, published in the Nov. 15 issue of Cancer, researchers examined the data on diagnosis, coexisting conditions, and procedures performed among 20,915 cases of head and neck cancer. The found a [...]

Does Pretreatment Seropositivity to Human Papillomavirus Have Prognostic Significance for Head and Neck Cancers?

Friday, August 15, 2008

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Source: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 17, 2087-2096, August 1, 2008 Authors: Elaine M. Smith et al. Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a risk factor for head and neck cancers (HNC), yet HPV-associated tumors have better prognosis than HPV-negative tumors. Methods: We evaluated whether pretreatment presence of antibodies to HPV capsids [virus-like particles (VLP)] or [...]

Disease-Free Period Predicts Response to Salvage Therapy for Oral Cancer

Friday, August 1, 2008

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Source: Abkhazia (www.abkhazia.com) Author: Ramaz Mitaishvili In patients with locally recurrent carcinomas of the oral cavity and oropharynx, a disease-free interval of more than 1 year and tumor tissue negative for EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) expression predict a good response to salvage surgery. That’s the conclusion of physicians in Brazil who studied the outcomes [...]

Nervous Tissue Involvement May Predict Progression of Oral Carcinomas: Presented at AHNS

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Source: Doctor’s Guide (www.docguide.com) Author: Arushi Sinha Among patients with early-stage squamous cell carcinomas, those with perineural involvement appear to have lower survival rates compared with patients who have no perineural involvement, according to research presented here at the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) 7th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer. While it [...]

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