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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(15):1182-1183; doi:10.1093/jnci/djh233
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RESPONSE: Re: Human Papillomavirus in Oral Exfoliated Cells and Risk of Head and Neck Cancer

Elaine M. Smith, Thomas H. Haugen, Lubomir P. Turek

Affiliation of authors: Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health (EMS), VAMC and Department of Pathology, Carver College of Medicine (THH, LPT), University of Iowa, Iowa City

Correspondence to: Elaine M. Smith, PhD, MPH, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 (e-mail: elaine-smith@uiowa.edu)

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Dr. Castle’s caution regarding human papillomavirus high-risk (HPV-HR) types in head and neck cancer is, in our opinion, unduly pessimistic. Although he recognizes that our oral HPV testing was more accurate for the detection of head and neck cancer (HNC), he lumps our results (1) with those of a study by the IARC consortium (2) that reported lower HPV-HR prevalence in case and control subjects alike. We believe that combining the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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