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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2025

Human papillomavirus (HPV) related oropharyngeal cancers in Canada: A multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Voica Racovitan, Elizabeth Goodman, Winson Y Cheung, Anthony C Nichols, Lisa Caulley, Sabrina Wurzba

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors.

Voica RacovitanGlobal Marketing HPV Strategy, Merck & Co. Inc ., North Wales, PA, USA.
Elizabeth GoodmanVaccine Outcomes Research, Value and Implementation, Merck and Co., Inc ., North Wales, PA, USA.
Winson Y CheungDepartments of Medicine and Oncology, University of Calgary and the Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Anthony C NicholsDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Lisa CaulleyOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Sabrina WurzbaDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a risk for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), now the leading HPV-related cancer in males in Canada. P16 positivity is a marker of HPV positivity. Since 2015, all major Canadian cancer centers perform routine p16 tumor marker testing of OPCs to define their HPV status but recent data on the HPV-attributable fraction for OPC in Canada do not exist. A retrospective chart review was conducted of all squamous cell OPC cases in patients 18 years and older diagnosed from 2016 to 2020 in 4 major Canadian hospital-based regional oncology centers to determine the HPV attributable fraction for OPC in Canada using p16 as a surrogate marker for HPV. 1154 OPC cases were identified. Most patients (85.4%) were male; about one-third 26 (31.4%) had never smoked. Most OPC (80.6%) were P16 positive. p16 positivity was 27 associated with younger age (mean age p16+ 61.6 vs. p16- 66.5 years,

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Oropharyngeal NeoplasmsPapillomaviridaePapillomavirus InfectionsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBiomarkers, TumorCanadaCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16FemaleHuman Papillomavirus VirusesHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesBiomarkers, TumorCDKN2A protein, humanCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16CanadaHuman papillomavirusoropharyngeal cancerp16risk factors

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PMCPMC12026042

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