Molecular analyses of unselected head and neck cancer cases demonstrates that human papillomavirus transcriptional activity is positively associated with survival and prognosis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Masterson, Liam ^a,b   Winder, David M ^a   Ball, Siolian L R ^a   Vaughan, Katie ^a   Lehmann, Martin ^c   Scholtz, Lars Uwe ^c   Sterling, Jane C ^a   Sudhoff, Holger H ^c   Goon, Peter K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Bielefeld Academic Teaching Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

HNSCC; Human papillomavirus; Molecular diagnosis and prognosis; P53

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN E6; PROTEIN E7; PROTEIN P53; VIRUS DNA; E6 PROTEIN, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; ONCOGENE PROTEIN E7, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; ONCOPROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TP53 PROTEIN, HUMAN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMAN (CITIZEN); HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MORTALITY; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS 16; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; PAPILLOMAVIRUS E7 PROTEINS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84973659213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2398-7     Document Type: Article

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