HPV-relatedness definitions for classifying HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer patient do impact on TNM classification and patients’ survival

• Miren Taberna ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mtaberna@iconcologia.net

  Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), ONCOBELL, IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2446-186X

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• Marisa Mena,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain

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• Sara Tous,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain

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• Miquel Angel Pavón,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

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• Marc Oliva,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), ONCOBELL, IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

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• Xavier León,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

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• Jacinto Garcia,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

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• Marta Guix,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Research Program, IMIM, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

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• Rafael Hijano,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

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• Teresa Bonfill,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

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• Antón Aguilà,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

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• Laia Alemany,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

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• Ricard Mesía

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medical Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

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