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ArticleScientific reports2025

Individual and community-level social determinant impact on HPV-differentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma disparities in the USA.

David Fei-Zhang, Shravan Asthana, Stephanie Smith, Karthik Rajasekaran, Urjeet Patel, Daniel Chelius, Anthony Sheyn, Nosayaba Osazuwa-Peters, Jeffrey Rastatter

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David Fei-ZhangDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA. david.fei-zhang@northwestern.edu.
Shravan AsthanaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Stephanie SmithDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Karthik RajasekaranDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Urjeet PatelDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Daniel CheliusDepartment of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Anthony SheynDepartment of Pediatric Otolaryngology, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Nosayaba Osazuwa-PetersDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Jeffrey RastatterDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.

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Abstract

Nasopharyngeal carcinomas (NPC) are malignancies that have seen growing burdens with human papilloma virus (HPV) infection. This investigation aims to characterize social determinant factor of health (SDoH) differences across HPV-differentiated NPC across the USA. NPC-patients with confirmed-HPV status between 2010 and 2018 from the Surveillance-Epidemiology-End Results (SEER) database were analyzed by cox-proportional and logistic regressions of age, sex, race-ethnicity, census-level rurality-urbanicity, and census-level Yost-Socioeconomic Status (SES)-Index measures to assess mortality, staging, and delayed-treatment differences. Among 820-HPV( -) and 402-HPV(+) NPCs, both NPC-cohorts displayed reduced overall mortality risk with younger age (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.38-0.81; HR 0.57, 0.45-0.73) and higher risk with male sex (HR 1.71, 95% CI 1.11-2.64; HR 1.42, 95% CI 1.07-1.87). For HPV(-) only, Hispanic (HR 0.51, 95% CI 0.32-0.82) and Asian ethnicities (HR 0.44, 95% CI 0.33-0.58) reduced overall mortality risk, while low Yost-SES-Index increased it (HR 1.44, 1.14-1.87). For HPV( -) only, delayed treatment occurred with lower Yost-SES-Index (OR 1.97, 95% CI 1.16-3.42). Using the Yost-SES-Index and other individual/census-level SDoH, multilevel SDoH-analyses of HPV-differentiated NPC-patients display vast prognostic and treatment differences based on HPV-status. These present specific targets to prospectively and strategically address drivers of disparity with limited public health resources.

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Nasopharyngeal CarcinomaNasopharyngeal NeoplasmsPapillomavirus InfectionsSocial Determinants of HealthAdultAgedFemaleHealth Status DisparitiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedSEER ProgramSocial ClassUnited StatesHealth disparitiesHPVNasopharyngeal carcinomaSEERSocial determinants of healthYost Index

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