Actually the big HPV's in cervical cancer are 16 and 18, and in the mouth it is primarily 16. There is a distinct clinically proven survival advantage to HPV+ disease in the mouth vs tobacco origin disease, (as others have stated above) and this is likely because it seems to respond better to radiation. So that survival advantage has NOT been proven in patients that do NOT have multidisciplinary treatments that omit radiation.

Last edited by Brian Hill; 03-16-2012 11:03 AM.
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