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|Videos|October 20, 2017
Older HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Have High Treatment Tolerability
Author(s)Richard Bakst, MD
This video examines results of a study that looked at treatment tolerability in elderly patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
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In this video, Richard Bakst, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, discusses a study that examined treatment tolerability and outcomes in elderly patients (65 years and older) with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
Bakst presented the results of the study (
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