Podcasts Health & Fitness Medicine The AJN Podcast AJN editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with Janet McKiernan, lead author of Human PapillomavirusRelated Oropharyngeal Cancer: A Review of Nursing Considerations.

AJN editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with Janet McKiernan, lead author of Human PapillomavirusRelated Oropharyngeal Cancer: A Review of Nursing Considerations.

Published: July 18, 2016, 9:41 p.m.

b'The overall incidence of head and neck cancer has declined in the United States over the past 30 years due to reduction in tobacco use. Over that same period, however, the worldwide incidence of oropharyngeal cancer has escalated significantly\\u2014an epidemic rise that is largely attributed to certain genotypes of the human papillomavirus (HPV). AJN\\u2019s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with lead author Janet McKiernan about her article, which provides an overview of head and neck cancer\\u2014its incidence, risk factors, treatment, and posttreatment sequelae\\u2014with a focus on HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer.'