Investigators seek to determine the sensitivity and specificity of a combined HPV 16 DNA and host gene methylation oral biomarker panel to distinguish early Oropharyngeal Cancer (OPC) cases from controls among 100 early and 100 late disease pre-treatment OPC cases, and 200 controls matched by sex, age, race/ethnicity, and tobacco use collected from the Moffitt Cancer Center (Moffitt) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center (Pittsburgh).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
400
DNA Methylation Profiling
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hillman Cancer Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
RECRUITINGDiagnostic Sensitivity
A 95% one-sided confidence interval using the Wilson method will be obtained for sensitivity for the early Oropharyngeal Cancer cases and late Oropharyngeal Cancer cases.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Diagnostic Specificity
A 95% one-sided confidence interval using the Wilson method will be obtained for Specificity based on the control patients.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
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