Prevalence of human papillomavirus types in head and neck cancer sub-sites in the Indian population

• DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2022.1358
• Publication Date: 2022-02-18T15:04:08Z
• Authors: Devyani Gholap; Sharayu Mhatre; Pankaj Chaturvedi; Sudhir Nair; Tarik Gheit; Massimo Tommasino; Rajesh Dikshit
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Short Communication; 3. Good health

Although a subset of head and neck cancers (HNC) has been associated worldwide with mucosal high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV), information on the prevalence HPV-positive HNC in India is limited. In this study, we examined 21 subtypes HPV sub-sites (