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A snapshot of the evolving epidemiology of oropharynx cancers
Author(s) -
Chaturvedi Anil K.,
Zumsteg Zachary S.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.31383
Subject(s) - medicine , tempest , prologue , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , snapshot (computer storage) , population , demography , pathology , environmental health , history , physics , archaeology , sociology , computer science , optics , art history , operating system
The trajectory of the human papillomavirus–positive oropharyngeal cancer epidemic in the United States reveals that “what's past is prologue” (William Shakespeare, The Tempest ): birth cohorts that previously experienced rises in incidence at younger ages do so now at older ages. Trials to determine the optimal clinical management of this increasingly older patient population are needed. See also pages 2993‐9.