Carole Fakhry, Qiang Zhang, Phuc Felix Nguyen-Tan, David Rosenthal, Adel El-Naggar, Adam S Garden, Denis Soulieres, Andy Trotti, Vilija Avizonis, John Andrew Ridge, Jonathan Harris, Quynh-Thu Le, Maura Gillison
PURPOSE: Risk of cancer progression is reduced for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV) -positive oropharynx cancer (OPC) relative to HPV-negative OPC, but it is unknown whether risk of death after progression is similarly reduced. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with stage III-IV OPC enrolled onto Radiation Therapy Oncology Group trials 0129 or RTOG 0522 who had known tumor p16 status plus local, regional, and/or distant progression after receiving platinum-based chemoradiotherapy were eligible for a retrospective analysis of the association between tumor p16 status and overall survival (OS) after disease progression...
October 20, 2014: Journal of Clinical Oncology