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Do lots of people get oropharyngeal cancer, or is it unusual?
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Not very common: Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas are relatively uncommon malignancies with approximately 123, 000 cases of oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer diagnosed worldwide each year.
Answered 4/13/2012
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It is about: 4 times more common than cervical cancer! Yet very rarely brought before the public (media bias?, sensationalism?). BOTH can be caused by the same HPV virus.
Answered 1/18/2018
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