Findings are based on 267 patients with metastatic or recurrent cancer of the oral cavity,
oropharynx, hypopharynx, or larynx who had not responded to prior platinum-based chemotherapy, and who had low or negative expression of the PD-L1 protein.
Considering as null hypothesis that mapping of the crude rate does not clearly identify the formation of agglomerates of deaths, and that the Empirical Bayesian analysis provides a re-configuration of the distribution of mortality and formation of agglomerates, the aim of this study was to compare the results obtained between the estimate by the crude rate and the Bayesian method for the rate of deaths from oral and
oropharynx cancer, in the State of Minas Gerais, in 2012.
In Cyprus, 468 new cases of cancer of the lip, tongue, mouth, salivary glands, tonsils and
oropharynx were recorded between 2000 and 2014.
It addresses general principles like recent advances, modes of therapy, patient care, and practical aspects of external beam therapy, endocavitary beam therapy, intraoperative radiation, and brachytherapy, then site-specific indications and techniques for the oral cavity, nasopharynx,
oropharynx, larynx, hypopharynx, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, salivary glands, thyroid, skin, neck node metastasis from an unknown primary, and locoregional recurrence.
2] The
oropharynx cancers more often afflict men and usually diagnosed in 6th and 7th decade of life.
Even without complete knowledge of biological mechanisms [of how alcohol causes cancer], the epidemiological evidence can support the judgment that alcohol causes cancer of the
oropharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum and breast.
The lesion, located in her
oropharynx, had been observed at the time of intubation for an umbilical hernia repair 5 years earlier.
Other sites found to be involved were
oropharynx, nasopharynx, maxillary sinus, and salivary gland with lesser frequency [Table 1].
1 It was first described by Schwartz (1952) as he found this condition of oral mucosa including palate and pillars of
oropharynx first in five Kenyan women named this as "Atrophia Idiopathica Tropica Mucosae Oris".
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is the sixth most common malignancy in the world, with the
oropharynx the third most commonly affected site and the tonsil the most commonly affected structure within the
oropharynx.
1m grant was awarded to Baylor College of Medicine in support of an ongoing Phase 2 trial of the company's lead Lm Technology immunotherapy, axalimogene filolisbac (ADXS-HPV), in HPV-associated
oropharynx (throat) cancer, a type of head and neck cancer.
Blood tests correctly identified tumor DNA more often in
oropharynx cancers, larynx cancers, and hypopharynx cancers.
