Sentences with phrase «oropharyngeal cancers tested»

The study revealed that 14 percent of patients with oropharyngeal cancers tested positive for HCV antibodies, compared to just 6.5 percent in the control group.

She later found that whereas from 1984 to 1989 in the U.S. only 16 percent of oropharyngeal cancers tested positive for HPV, by 2005 that figure had skyrocketed to 73 percent.

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After medical testing, doctors diagnosed him with stage four oropharyngeal cancer.

Of note, 145 of all the oropharyngeal cancer patients were also tested for human papillomavirus (HPV), allowing researchers to compare possible associations between the two viruses.

Dr. Sturgis and his colleagues hope to provide data for such tests in clinical trials that will screen people at high risk for HPV - related anal or oropharyngeal cancers.