HPV+ OPSCC incidence over time

Last updated Dec 14, 2022 Edit Source

• Diseases
• Head and neck
• Hpv
• Epidemiology

“…overall HPV prevalence in OPSCC is increasing significantly over time:

from 40.5% before 2000, to 64.3% between 2000 and 2004, and 72.2% between 2005 and 2009”

@vermorkenWhereWhenUse2021

questions, probably won’t be answered for decades:

• what will the dropoff in sexual activity over the past decade or so do to these numbers? (don’t have a reference for this, heard a few times that teens are having less sex, also not sure if this translates into young adults)
• ditto for the HPV vaccine

questions that probably have an answer:

• what’s the average lead time from contracting HPV to getting OPSCC?