ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021
Circulating p16-Positive and p16-Negative Tumor Cells Serve as Independent Prognostic Indicators of Survival in Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas.
Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Plant Bioactive Constituents and Their Potential Benefits in HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma-A Narrative Review.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Liquid Biopsy and Circulating Biomarkers in Head and Neck Cancer: Advancing Non-Invasive Detection and Tailored Management.Cancers · 2025Review
- Single nucleotide polymorphism and expression of P16 gene as a potential biomarker for oral and pre-oral cancer.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- CIP/KIP and INK4 families as hostages of oncogenic signaling.Cell division · 2024Review
- Special Issue "Cancer Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine".Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Clinical applications of liquid biopsy in HPV-negative and HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: advances and challenges.Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundDecisions regarding the staging, prognosis, and treatment of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are made after determining their p16 expression levels and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection status.
methodsWe investigated the prognostic roles of p16-positive and p16-negative circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and their cell counts in HNSCC patients. We enrolled patients with locally advanced HNSCCs who received definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy for final analysis. We performed CTC testing and p16 expression analysis before chemoradiotherapy. We analyzed the correlation between p16-positive and p16-negative CTCs and HPV genotyping, tissue p16 expression status, response to chemoradiotherapy, disease-free survival, and overall survival.
resultsForty-one patients who fulfilled the study criteria were prospectively enrolled for final analysis. The detection rates of p16-positive (>0 cells/mL blood) and p16-negative (≥3 cells/mL blood) CTCs were 51.2% (
conclusionsThe p16-positive and p16-negative CTCs could predict outcomes in HNSCC patients receiving definitive chemoradiotherapy. This non-invasive CTC test could help stratify the risk and prognosis before chemoradiotherapy in clinical practice and enable us to perform de-intensifying therapies.
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