2022
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is Associated With Poor Overall Survival Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer
Salahuddin S, Cohen O, Wu M, Irizarry J, Vega T, Gan G, Deng Y, Isaeva N, Prasad M, Schalper K, Mehra S, Yarbrough W, Emu B. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is Associated With Poor Overall Survival Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 76: 1449-1458. PMID: 36520995, PMCID: PMC10319962, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac924.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOverall survivalIndependent predictorsHNSCC patientsWorse prognosisOropharyngeal tumorsCox proportional hazards regression modelMultivariate analysisHPV-positive oropharyngeal tumorsNeck squamous cell cancerProportional hazards regression modelsLower median overall survivalAcademic hospital centerNon-HIV populationMedian overall survivalPredictors of survivalSquamous cell cancerHuman immunodeficiency virusPoor clinical outcomeExpression of CD4Poor overall survivalHazards regression modelsRace/ethnicityCD8 infiltrationHazard ratioClinicopathologic characteristics
2019
Clinical Outcomes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients Who Undergo Resection, But Forgo Adjuvant Therapy
LOGANADANE G, KANN BH, PARK HS, JOHNSON SB, MEHRA S, JUDSON BL, BHATIA A, BELKACEMI Y, YARBROUGH WG, BURTNESS B, HUSAIN ZA. Clinical Outcomes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients Who Undergo Resection, But Forgo Adjuvant Therapy. Anticancer Research 2019, 39: 4885-4890. PMID: 31519591, DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.13674.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLocoregional recurrence-free survivalAdjuvant therapyNeck squamous cell carcinomaOutcomes of patientsRecurrence-free survivalSquamous cell carcinomaNeck cancer patientsHNSCC patientsClinical outcomesRecurrence rateCell carcinomaMean TTPCancer patientsPatientsTherapyResectionMonthsOutcomesHNSCCSurgeryCarcinomaHeadIncidenceProgression