Rising incidence of HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer in Taiwan between 1999 and 2014 where betel nut chewing is common

• Published in: BMC cancer Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 296 - 10
• Main Authors: Wang, Cheng-Ping, Chen, Tseng-Cheng, Hsu, Wan-Lun, Hsiao, Jenn-Ren, Chen, Peir-Rong, Chen, Mu-Kuan, Hua, Chun-Hung, Tsai, Ming-Hsui, Ko, Jenq-Yuh, Lou, Pei-Jen, Chiang, Chun-Ju, Wu, Chen-Tu, Chang, Yih-Leong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 21.03.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Age; Alcohol; Areca - adverse effects; Betel nut; Care and treatment; Cigarettes; Diagnosis; Female; Genotype; Genotyping; Head & neck cancer; Health Risk Behaviors; Human papillomavirus; Human papillomavirus 16 - genetics; Humans; Incidence; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Mastication; Medical prognosis; Medical records; Nuts; Oropharyngeal cancer; Oropharyngeal Neoplasms - epidemiology; Oropharyngeal Neoplasms - mortality; Oropharyngeal Neoplasms - virology; p16; Papillomavirus infections; Papillomavirus Infections - complications; Patients; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Prevention; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Risk factors; Smoking; Survival; Survival analysis; Taiwan - epidemiology; Throat cancer; Tumors; Taiwan; United States > US; Human papillomavirus; p16; Betel nut; Oropharyngeal cancer; Incidence

The incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) positive oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) is rising but HPV negative OPC is decreasing in Western countries. In Taiwan, the incidence of HPV negative OPC is common but the incidence of HPV positive OPC remains unknown. The objective of this study is to estimate...