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William H. Westra
Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Publications - 452
Citations - 57733
William H. Westra is an academic researcher from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The author has contributed to research in topics: Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 110, co-authored 441 publications receiving 52448 citations. Previous affiliations of William H. Westra include Mount Sinai Hospital & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Human Papillomavirus and Survival of Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer
K. Kian Ang,Jonathan Harris,Richard H. Wheeler,Randal S. Weber,David I. Rosenthal,Phuc Felix Nguyen-Tân,William H. Westra,Christine H. Chung,Richard C.K. Jordan,Charles Lu,Harold Kim,Rita Axelrod,C Craig Silverman,Kevin P. Redmond,Maura L. Gillison +14 more
TL;DR: Tumor HPV status is a strong and independent prognostic factor for survival among patients with oropharyngeal cancer and the risk of death significantly increased with each additional pack-year of tobacco smoking.
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Evidence for a Causal Association Between Human Papillomavirus and a Subset of Head and Neck Cancers
Maura L. Gillison,Wayne M. Koch,Randolph B. Capone,Michael Spafford,William H. Westra,Li Wu,Marianna Zahurak,Richard W. Daniel,Michael P. Viglione,David Eric Symer,Keerti V. Shah,David Sidransky +11 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers comprise a distinct molecular, clinical, and pathologic disease entity that is likely causally associated with HPV infection and that has a markedly improved prognosis.
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Case-control study of human papillomavirus and oropharyngeal cancer.
Aimée R. Kreimer,Raphael P. Viscidi,Michael Pawlita,Carole Fakhry,Wayne M. Koch,William H. Westra,Maura L. Gillison +6 more
TL;DR: Oropharyngeal cancer was significantly associated with oral HPV type 16 (HPV-16) infection, and the degree of association increased with the number of vaginal-sex and oral-sex partners, among subjects with or without the established risk factors of tobacco and alcohol use.
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Improved Survival of Patients With Human Papillomavirus–Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Prospective Clinical Trial
Carole Fakhry,William H. Westra,S. Li,Anthony J. Cmelak,John A. Ridge,Harlan A. Pinto,Arlene A. Forastiere,Maura L. Gillison +7 more
TL;DR: For patients with HNSCC of the oropharynx, tumor HPV status is strongly associated with therapeutic response and survival and, after adjustment for age, tumor stage, and ECOG performance status, lower risks of progression and death are found.
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Exome sequencing of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma reveals inactivating mutations in NOTCH1
Nishant Agrawal,Mitchell J. Frederick,Curtis R. Pickering,Chetan Bettegowda,Kyle Chang,Ryan J. Li,Carole Fakhry,Tong Xin Xie,Jiexin Zhang,Jing Wang,Nianxiang Zhang,Adel K. El-Naggar,Samar A. Jasser,John N. Weinstein,Lisa R. Trevino,Jennifer Drummond,Donna M. Muzny,Yuanqing Wu,Laura D. Wood,Ralph H. Hruban,William H. Westra,Wayne M. Koch,Joseph A. Califano,Joseph A. Califano,Richard A. Gibbs,Richard A. Gibbs,David Sidransky,Bert Vogelstein,Victor E. Velculescu,Nickolas Papadopoulos,David A. Wheeler,Kenneth W. Kinzler,Jeffrey N. Myers +32 more
TL;DR: To explore the genetic origins of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, whole-exome sequencing and gene copy number analyses were used to study 32 primary tumors and identified mutations in FBXW7 and NotCH1, suggesting that NOTCH1 may function as a tumor suppressor gene rather than an oncogene in this tumor type.