title: The rise of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers in the United States.
abstract: This perspective highlights a study that reports an increasing proportion of human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer among blacks in recent calendar periods. The results are discussed in the context of other studies which evaluated racial differences in the distribution of human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer and survival.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland. Milton J. Dance Jr. Head and Neck Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland. cfakhry@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fakhry
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California.
authors.forename: Ezra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D052162:Human papillomavirus 16; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009959:Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000821:virology*; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000208:ethnology*