Open AccessWorldwide Trends in Incidence Rates for Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancers
Author(s) -
Anil K. Chaturvedi,
William F. Anderson,
Joannie LortetTieulent,
María Paula Curado,
Jacques Ferlay,
Silvia Franceschi,
Philip S. Rosenberg,
Freddie Bray,
Maura L. Gillison
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482
H-Index - 548
eISSN - 1527-7755
pISSN - 0732-183X
DOI - 10.1200/jco.2013.50.3870
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , demography , lung cancer , cancer , optics , physics , sociology
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been identified as the cause of the increasing oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) incidence in some countries. To investigate whether this represents a global phenomenon, we evaluated incidence trends for OPCs and oral cavity cancers (OCCs) in 23 countries across four continents.
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