Prognostic impact of HPV-associated p16-expression and smoking status on outcomes following radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer: The MARCH-HPV project.

CONCLUSIONS: No predictive impact of p16-status on response to AFRT could be detected but the strong prognostic impact of p16-status was confirmed and especially p16-positive never smoking patients have superior outcome after RT. PMID: 29100700 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - October 31, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Lassen P, Lacas B, Pignon JP, Trotti A, Zackrisson B, Zhang Q, Overgaard J, Blanchard P, MARCH Collaborative Group Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research