Pre-treatment tumor-specific growth rate as a temporal biomarker that predicts treatment failure and improves risk stratification for oropharyngeal cancer. Issue 11 (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murphy, Colin T.; Devarajan, Karthik; Wang, Lora S.; Mehra, Ranee; Ridge, John A.; Fundakowski, Christopher; Galloway, Thomas J.
• Is Part Of: Oral oncology. Volume 51:Issue 11(2015:Nov.)
• Page Start: 1034
• Page End: 1040
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: Mouth -- Cancer -- Periodicals; Mouth -- Tumors -- Periodicals; Mouth Diseases -- Periodicals; Mouth Neoplasms -- Periodicals; Bouche -- Cancer -- Périodiques; Bouche -- Tumeurs -- Périodiques; Tumeurs -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 616.9943105
• DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2015.09.001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1368-8375

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title id="st005">Highlights</title> <p id="sp0005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="o0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0005">Serial imaging permits estimates of tumor-specific growth rate (TSGR) for OPC.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0010">Faster TSGR correlates well with p16 status, T-stage and smoking.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0015">TSGR predicts outcomes for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) in the HPV era.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0020"> <label></label> <p id="p0020">TSGR calculation may improve identification of de-escalation candidates.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>