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ReviewCancers2024

De-Escalation Strategies in HPV-Associated Oropharynx Cancer: A Historical Perspective with Future Direction.

Clinton Wu, Paulina Kuzmin, Ricklie Julian

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Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Circulating tumor HPV DNA versus PET-CT for surveillance in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.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 · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Clinton WuDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-1223-2243
Paulina KuzminDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.
Ricklie JulianDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers has increased in recent decades. While cure rates exceed those of HPV-negative head and neck cancers, both acute and long-term sequelae of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery have led to clinical investigation into de-escalation of treatment. De-escalation trials have sought to reduce long-term treatment-related morbidity by altering or omitting chemotherapy, reducing radiation, or incorporating less invasive surgical resection through transoral surgery. More recent approaches include the use of novel agents such as immunotherapy in place of cisplatin. With the advent of tumor-tissue-modified HPV DNA detection and monitoring in blood, new strategies incorporating this biomarker are being developed.

Indexed as

ctDNAde-escalationHPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer

Identifiers

PMID39123461
PMCPMC11311653

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