Innovations in risk-stratification and treatment of Veterans with oropharynx cancer; roadmap of the 2019 Field Based Meeting

V C Sandulache; Y L Lei; L E Heasley; M Chang; C I Amos; E M Sturgis; E Graboyes; E Y Chiao; N Rogus-Pulia; J Lewis; A Madabhushi; M J Frederick; A Sabichi; M Ittmann; W G Yarbrough; C H Chung; R Ferrarotto; Weiyuan Mai; H D Skinner; U Duvvuri; P Gerngross; A G Sikora

doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2019.104440

Innovations in risk-stratification and treatment of Veterans with oropharynx cancer; roadmap of the 2019 Field Based Meeting

Oral Oncol. 2020 Mar:102:104440. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2019.104440. Epub 2019 Oct 22.

Authors

V C Sandulache¹, Y L Lei², L E Heasley³, M Chang⁴, C I Amos⁵, E M Sturgis⁶, E Graboyes⁷, E Y Chiao⁸, N Rogus-Pulia⁹, J Lewis¹⁰, A Madabhushi¹¹, M J Frederick¹², A Sabichi¹³, M Ittmann¹⁴, W G Yarbrough¹⁵, C H Chung¹⁶, R Ferrarotto¹⁷, Weiyuan Mai¹⁸, H D Skinner¹⁹, U Duvvuri²⁰, P Gerngross²¹, A G Sikora²²

Affiliations

¹ Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; ENT Section, Operative Care Line, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
³ Department of Craniofacial Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States; Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA, United States.
⁵ Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
⁶ Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
⁷ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States; Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, United States.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States.
⁹ Speech Pathology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, United States; William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
¹¹ Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States; Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, United States.
¹² Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
¹³ Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; Medical Care Line, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States.
¹⁴ Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Pathology, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States.
¹⁵ Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
¹⁶ Department of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States.
¹⁷ Department of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
¹⁸ Department of Radiation Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Radiation Oncology, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States.
¹⁹ Department of Radiation Oncology, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
²⁰ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; ENT Section, Operative Care Line, Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
²¹ Dental Service Line, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States.
²² Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; ENT Section, Operative Care Line, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].

No abstract available

Keywords: HPV; Oropharynx; Radiation; Tobacco; Tumor immune microenvironment; Veteran.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Humans
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / drug therapy*
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / virology
Papillomaviridae / isolation & purification*
Papillomavirus Infections / complications*
Papillomavirus Infections / virology
Risk Assessment / methods*
United States / epidemiology
Veterans / statistics & numerical data*

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding