Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Early HPV testing could detect sexually transmitted oral cancer

Antibodies to a high-risk type of human papilloma virus (HPV16) could help detect oropharyngeal cancer several years before the clinical onset of the disease, reveals a new study from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in cooperation with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) in an article published online today by the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Kreimer A et al. Evaluation of Human Papillomavirus Antibodies and Risk of Subsequent Head and Neck Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2013 Jun 17 [Epub ahead of print].

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