HPV linked to a third of throat cancers

One third of people with cancers in the back of the throat (oropharyngeal cancers) are infected with a certain strain of human papillomavirus (HPV), according to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology at the weekend. The research team, which included Cancer Research UK scientists at the University of Oxford, compared pre-diagnostic blood samples from 938 patients with cancers of the head and neck, oesophageal (gullet) and oropharyngeal cancers with samples from 1,599 people without the disease (the controls)...
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