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Kim Vo1, Colton Ladbury2, Andrew Tam2
1Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, California, USA.
Background:
This study characterized whether the updated AJCC 8th edition nodal staging system for p16+ oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) resulted in the loss of prognostic value.
Methods:
The NCDB was queried for patients with node-positive p16+ OPSCC. The prognostic impact of nodal size, nodal quantity, nodal laterality, and extracapsular extension (ECE) on overall survival (OS) was assessed.
Results:
In the clinical cohort, inferior 5-year OS was observed in patients with more than one positive lymph node (p < 0.001; 82% vs. 86%), ECE (p < 0.001; 82% vs. 75%), or nodal size >6 cm (p < 0.001; 66% vs. 82%). In the pathologic cohort, inferior 5-year OS was observed in patients with > four positive lymph nodes (p < 0.001; 76% vs. 90%), ECE (p < 0.001; 83% vs. 92%), or largest nodal size >6 cm (p < 0.001; 81% vs. 89%).
Conclusions:
Simplifications in the current p16+ OPSCC staging system led to loss of prognostic information in nodal staging.
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