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De-Escalated Therapy and Early Treatment of Recurrences in HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancer: The Potential for Biomarkers to Revolutionize Personalized Therapy.

Wendell G Yarbrough, Travis P Schrank, Barbara A Burtness, Natalia Issaeva

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Review in Viruses, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Development of a Clinical Assay to Guide Patient Therapy in HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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  4. Attributes of HPV associated cancers.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wendell G YarbroughDepartment of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0855-6444
Travis P SchrankDepartment of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Barbara A BurtnessDepartment of Medicine, Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Natalia IssaevaDepartment of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5483-6610
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USYale Cancer Center · US

Funding

Project-006U10CA180820 · NCI · ECOG-ACRIN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI Peter J ODwyer, MITCHELL D. SCHNALL · 2014 to 2026
$167.6M
Yale Head and Neck Cancer SPORE: Overcoming Treatment Resistance in Head and Neck CancerP50DE030707 · NIDCR · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BURTNESS, BARBARA · 2020 to 2024
$11.8M
Exploring mechanisms of therapeutic demethylation effects in HPV-associated head and neck cancerR01DE027942 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ANDERSON, KAREN S., ISSAEVA, NATALIA · 2019 to 2023
$2.1M
Dissecting NF-kB pathway in HPV-associated head and neck cancerR01DE031297 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Natalia Issaeva, WENDELL G YARBROUGH · 2023 to 2026
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS U10 CA180820NIDCR NIH HHS P50 DE030707NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE027942NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE031297
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human papillomavirus-associated (HPV+) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the most common HPV-associated cancer in the United States, with a rapid increase in incidence over the last two decades. The burden of HPV+ HNSCC is likely to continue to rise, and given the long latency between infection and the development of HPV+ HNSCC, it is estimated that the effect of the HPV vaccine will not be reflected in HNSCC prevalence until 2060. Efforts have begun to decrease morbidity of standard therapies for this disease, and its improved characterization is being leveraged to identify and target molecular vulnerabilities. Companion biomarkers for new therapies will identify responsive tumors. A more basic understanding of two mechanisms of HPV carcinogenesis in the head and neck has identified subtypes of HPV+ HNSCC that correlate with different carcinogenic programs and that identify tumors with good or poor prognosis. Current development of biomarkers that reliably identify these two subtypes, as well as biomarkers that can detect recurrent disease at an earlier time, will have immediate clinical application.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorHead and Neck NeoplasmsPapillomavirus InfectionsPrecision MedicineSquamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and NeckHumansNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPapillomaviridaeBiomarkers, Tumorbiomarkerscancer subtypeshead and neck cancerhead and neck squamous cell carcinomaHNSCCHPVliquid biopsytherapy de-escalationtherapy deintensification

Identifiers

PMID38675879
PMCPMC11053602
OpenAlexW4393353295

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