Should the HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer patient be considered for a two-stage dental assessment for their radiation treatment?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Should the HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer patient be considered for a two-stage dental assessment for their radiation treatment?

AU - Patel, Vinod

AU - Kwok, Jerry

AU - Burke, Mary

AU - Urbano, Teresa Guerrero

AU - Fenlon, Michael

N1 - Funding Information: Nil. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

PY - 2021/11

Y1 - 2021/11

N2 - Patients due to commence head and neck radiation treatment are expected to undergo a dental assessment and be deemed ‘dentally fit’. Though this intervention is welcomed by the dental fraternity it is not without its challenges especially in human papilloma virus (HPV) related oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) which has seen a phenomenal rise over the past decade. This perspective piece presents these challenges and proposes a potential adaption of the dental assessment for HPV OPC patients though not necessarily exclusive to this tumour sub-site.

AB - Patients due to commence head and neck radiation treatment are expected to undergo a dental assessment and be deemed ‘dentally fit’. Though this intervention is welcomed by the dental fraternity it is not without its challenges especially in human papilloma virus (HPV) related oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) which has seen a phenomenal rise over the past decade. This perspective piece presents these challenges and proposes a potential adaption of the dental assessment for HPV OPC patients though not necessarily exclusive to this tumour sub-site.

KW - Dental assessment

KW - IMRT

KW - Oropharyngeal cancer

KW - Osteoradionecrosis

KW - Radiotherapy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117362069&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.radonc.2021.09.021

DO - 10.1016/j.radonc.2021.09.021

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85117362069

SN - 0167-8140

VL - 164

SP - 232

EP - 235

JO - Radiotherapy and Oncology

JF - Radiotherapy and Oncology

ER -