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HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV)

HPV-associated OPC is a separate disease

entity compared with conventional smoking

and drinking associated OPC.

Patients are typically young and functional,

presenting with big cystic cervical nodes and

small primaries hidden within the tonsillar

tissue crypts in the oropharynx.

TORS has an increasingly important role in

the diagnosis of early OPC with a detection

rate of up to 80%. Furthermore, it offers a

chance of cure and treatment de-

intensification.