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ArticleClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2020

Prognostic value of HPV status among patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma: a population-based study.

O Abdel-Rahman

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Article in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. ZNF683Nature communications · 2026
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  3. Surgery-based multimodal therapy outperforms chemoradiotherapy alone in HPV-negative advanced HSCC: superior outcomes for T3/N2-3 hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  6. Factors Related to Human Papillomavirus Positivity among Oral Cavity and Pharynx Cancers from Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program Data.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2023
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  8. Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx: an analysis of 213 cases.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2022
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O Abdel-RahmanDepartment of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1Z2, Canada. omar.abdelsalam@ahs.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5117-2502
University of Alberta · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo clarify the prognostic role of human papilloma virus (HPV) status among patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma.

methodsSurveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) HPV head and neck cancer database has been accessed and cases with hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma with known HPV status were retrieved. Kaplan-Meier survival estimates were used to evaluate the impact of HPV status on overall survival outcomes of included patients and multivariable cox regression analysis was used to assess the impact of HPV status on overall and head and neck cancer-specific survival.

resultsA total of 1157 patients' records with hypopharyngeal carcinoma were included in the current analysis. Using Kaplan-Meier survival estimates, patients with HPV positive status seem to have better overall survival compared to patients with HPV negative status (P < 0.01). When stratified by stage, patients with HPV positive regional and distant disease have better overall survival compared to patients with HPV negative regional and distant disease (P < 0.01 for both categories). The same observation cannot be confirmed for patients with localized disease (P = 0.15). Using multivariable Cox regression analysis, HPV positive status seems to be associated with better overall survival (HR for HPV negative versus HPV positive status: 1.76; 95% CI 1.39-2.24; P < 0.01) and cancer-specific survival (HR for HPV negative versus HPV positive status: 1.54; 95% CI 1.12-2.11; P < 0.01).

conclusionsPatients with HPV positive hypopharyngeal carcinoma seem to have better overall and cancer-specific survival compared to patients with HPV negative hypopharyngeal carcinoma.

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AgedAlphapapillomavirusFemaleHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansMalePapillomavirus InfectionsPrognosisRetrospective StudiesSEER ProgramSquamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and NeckSurvival RateUnited StatesHead and neck cancerHPVHypopharyngeal carcinomaPrognosis

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