Abstract:Incidence of human papillomavirus positive (HPV+) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) has dramatically increased in the U.S. surpassing cervical cancer since 2012. Among HNSCC, HPV+ HNSCC patients have a favorable prognosis; however, approximately 20-30% suffer recurrence. Given the morbidity of current therapy, therapeutic de-escalation for HPV+ HNSCC is being explored in many clinical trials but is hampered by absence of accurate molecular classifiers to identify tumors at high and low risk of recu… Show more
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