Abstract:ObjectivesThe American Joint Committee on Cancer's 8th edition (AJCC‐8) separates oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCCs) into human papillomavirus‐positive (HPV+) tumors and HPV‐negative tumors. Although AJCC‐8 improves prognostic prediction for survival for the majority of HPV+ OPSCC, outliers are still encountered. The goal of this manuscript is to validate the AJCC‐8 as a better metric of survivability than the AJCC‐7 in an historically under‐served rural population with confounding variables, such… Show more
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