Human immunodeficiency virus
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and progression to AIDS is positively correlated with malignancies of the upper
aerodigestive tract, particularly Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and, to a lesser extent, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).
[39 ]
Funk
and colleagues reported a very high incidence of Kaposi sarcoma in young African American males between 1985 and 1996, a time when the
AIDS epidemic heavily affected that demographic.
[14 ]
Other series have not addressed (even indirectly) immunodeficiency due to HIV or other
causes in young patients.
Genetics
Some genetic component to cancer development in young patients is likely, particularly in those patients with no recognized risk factors. These
patients have been shown to have increased DNA fragility, which may make them more likely to develop genetic abnormalities.
[40 ]
However,
studies examining specific genetic alterations in HNSCC as a function of patient age, including mutations in p53, p21, Rb, and MDM2,
[23,41
]
and microsatellite instability,
[42 ]
have failed to find an increase in these abnormalities among young patients.
Likewise, Koch and colleagues found tumors of nonsmokers with HNSCC to have fewer genetic abnormalities than those of their smoking
counterparts, leading them to conclude that the genetic alterations in tumors from nonsmoking patients remain undiscovered.
[36 ]
Llewellyn and
colleagues’ larger series reported a positive family history of cancer in 75% of female and 59% of male subjects younger than age 45 with
HNSCC, suggesting genetics, immunology, or some common environmental exposure may play a role in the development of HNSCC in the
young.
[15 ]
A rare inherited cancer syndrome associated with HNSCC is Fanconi anemia (FA), an autosomal recessive syndrome caused by defects in
DNA repair. FA carries a high risk of development of malignancy at a young age, with a median age of presentation of 31, and a cumulative
incidence of HNSCC of 14% by age 40.
[43,44 ]
Patients with FA and HNSCC are more likely to be female (2:1), with very few reporting tobacco
use. Oral cavity is the most common site and the outcome is poor, with a 63% rate of second primaries and a 2-year overall survival of
49%.
[44 ]
Workup
No specific additional workup is required for young patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) compared with their older
counterparts. However, a young patient presenting with no traditional risk factors may warrant at least a careful history to examine for other
possible etiologies, including a familial syndrome or evidence of immunodeficiency. If these etiologies are uncovered, appropriate additional
workup should be carried out. In centers with active protocols examining the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) or other genetic
abnormalities, eligibility for these studies should be assessed and participation offered. As of yet, no role for HPV serotyping or genetic testing
in young patients has been standardized.
Please see sections on specific head and neck subsites for workup of malignancies in these areas.
Treatment
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy
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No studies have specifically examined different types or doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy as a function of age. Most studies using
chemotherapy as a modality for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) fail to stratify age in looking at outcome. Currently,
available studies looking at outcomes with regards to patient age give little to no data about specific chemotherapeutic agents or radiation
techniques and dosing. Given that less than 2% of HNSCC patients are enrolled in clinical trials nationwide, only future enrollment of all
patients into clinical trials can give us knowledge about the role of modality and outcome regarding patient age.
Radiation is used as single modality therapy for early stage disease (stage I-II) and in multimodality therapy for advanced disease (stage III-IV).
However, radiation of young patients has specific implications given their potential lifespan. As patients survive longer after radiation treatment
for head and neck cancer, the long-term consequences of this treatment become more significant. Difficulties with xerostomia, fibrosis, and
swallowing are significant quality of life issues in long-term survivors of head and neck irradiation.
[45 ]
Radiation-induced malignancies, such as sarcoma or thyroid carcinoma, although uncommon, are also a concern in the long-term follow-up of
irradiated patients. Young HNSCC patients successfully treated with radiation have longer posttreatment lives in which to potentially develop
these malignancies, and this has prompted some authors to suggest surgery as the primary modality for treatment of the young patient.
[46 ]
Conversely, recent evidence suggests that HPV-positive tumors may be more responsive to organ preservation therapy than HPV-negative
tumors.
[37 ]
This may lead to organ preservation therapy being the preferred modality for both young and old patients who are HPV positive.
Surgical therapy
No studies specifically address the extent of surgical resection in young patients. As discussed in Histology (in the Introduction section) and
Outcome and Prognosis, most young patients with HNSCC do not have an inherently more aggressive disease, and, therefore, do not require
a departure from standard treatment for any given stage. However, by the same token, efforts should not be made to perform a more limited or
less complete resection simply because of a patient’s young age. Further research may reveal if young women with aggressive disease
(Funk’s Group I) warrant more aggressive initial treatment, even when presenting with early disease (stage I-II).
[47 ]
Outcome and Prognosis
Prognosis
The vast majority of publications on young patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) address outcome, and yet debate
in the literature continues as to whether age at presentation has any effect on prognosis. Identified papers addressing prognosis in young
patients with HNSCC are summarized in Table I below. Many of the studies are smaller, retrospective, matched studies and case series that
suffer limitations of this methodology, as well as other methodological issues.
[48 ]
Only one study matched patients by treatment and found no
difference in survival among 31 patients younger than 40 years and 62 matched controls.
[25 ]
Authors
Year Site(s)
[a]
Age
#
Young
#
Control
Method [b]
Prognosis for
Young [c]
Venables and
Craft
1967 T
<30
13
none
Case Series
Worse
Byers
1975 T
<30
11
none
Case Series
Worse
Amsterdam et al
1982 OC
<35
12
none
Case Series
Worse
McGregor et al
1983 OC
<40
27
none
Case Series
Better
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Newman et al
1983 T
<30
13
none
Case Series
Similar
Mendez et al
1985 A
<=40 63
none
Case Series
Similar
Son and Kapp
1985 OC,
OP
<40
27
none
Case Series
Worse
McGregor and
Rennie
1987 OC
<40
13
none
Case Series
Worse
Benninger et al
1988 A
<=40 41
none
Case Series
Worse
Cusamano et al
1988 CO,
OP
<=40 23
none
Case Series
Worse
Tsukuda et al
1993 A
<40
48
none
Case Series
Better
Sarkaria and
Harari
1994 T
<40
6
none
Case Series
Worse
Atula et al
1996 T
<40
34
none
Case Series
Similar
Martin-Granizo
et al
1997 OC
<40
24
none
Case Series
Similar
Pitman et al
2000 T
<40
28
none
Case Series
Similar
Iype et al
2001 OC
<35
264
none
Case Series
Similar
Vermund et al
1982 T
<40
16
384
Institutional Series
Better
Von Doersten et
al
1995 A
<40
23
122
Institutional Series
Similar
Siegelmann-
Danieli et al
1998 T
<=45 30
57
Institutional Series
Similar
Veness et al
2003 T
<=40 22
142
Institutional Series
Similar
Lipkin et al
1985 OC,
OP, L
<=40 39
39
Matched Control (sx, si, st)
Similar
Schantz et al
1988 A
<=40 83
83
Matched Control (sx, st, si, y)
Worse
Kuriakose et al
1992 OC
<35
37
37
Matched Control (random sample)
Similar
Friedlander et al
1998 T
<40
36
36
Matched Control (sx, st, y)
Similar
Verschuur et al
1999 A
<40
185
185
Matched Control (sx, si, y)
Better
Vargas et al
2000 T
<40
17
17
Matched Control (st)
Worse
Pytynia et al
2004 A
<40
31
62
Matched Control (sx, r, si, st, tx)
Similar
Sasaki et al
2005 OC
<40
35
110
Matched Control (random sample)
Similar
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Garavello et al
2007 T
<=40 46
92
Matched Control (sx, si, st)
Worse
Lee et al
2007 T
<45
20
20
Matched Control (sx, st)
Better
Ho et al
2008 OC
<45
28
56
Matched Control (sx, si, st)
Better
Lacy et al
2000 A
<=40 40
990
Database Review (Washington
University Cancer Registry)
Better
Davidson et al
2001 T
<40
N/A [d] N/A [d]
Database Review (SEER 1988-1993) Better
Annertz et al
2002 T
<40
276
4748
Database Review (Scandanavian
Cancer Registry)
Better
Funk et al
2002 OC
<35
2,148
56776
Database Review (National Cancer
Database)
Better
Schantz and Yu
2002 A
<40
3339
60070
Database Review (SEER 1973-1997) Better
Kolker et al
2007 PC,
OP
<50
1343
9401
Database Review (Michigan State
Cancer Registry)
Worse
Table Legend
Table I: Articles addressing prognosis of young patients with head and neck cancer were identified from PubMed searches and from reference
lists of primary and review articles.
[a] Site abbreviations are as follows: T=tongue, OC=oral cavity, OP=Oropharynx, L=larynx, A=all head and neck sites.
[b] Matching criteria is as follows: sx=sex, si, site, st=stage, r=race, tx=treatment, y=year at presentation; SEER=Surveillance, Epidemiology,
and End Results program.
[c] Relative prognosis of young patients compared with older patients reported here is what was reported by the authors of the identified
papers. For all of the case series listed, authors made comparisons to historic "controls" to assign relative prognosis.
[d] Specific numbers are not listed in the paper.
Additionally, remember that young patients are not necessarily free of other medical problems. Singh and colleagues found the presence of
advanced comorbidity to diminish disease-free interval and tumor specific survival in an analysis of 70 patients with HNSCC younger than age
45.
[44 ]
This remains another element that is not typically accounted for in matched studies.
The larger database studies may be more reliable. Funk and colleagues analyzed the 1985-1996 NCDB, finding an increased 5-year survival
rate for patients with HNSCC age 35 or younger compared with patients age 36-65, and for patients age 36-65 compared with patients 65
years and older across all stages, but these differences were only significant for stage I disease.
[14 ]
Shiboski and colleagues’ analysis of the
1973-2001 SEER database revealed an overall increased 5-year survival for patients with HNSCC who were younger than 45 years.
[4 ]
An
analysis of Scandinavian cancer registries by Annertz and colleagues similarly found increased 5-year survival among patients younger than
40 years.
[9 ]
Lacy and colleagues reviewed the cancer database of the Washington University School of Medicine from 1980-1991.
[48 ]
Forty patients aged
40 years or younger were identified out of 1030 patients with 5-year survival data available. Young patients had a significantly better 5-year
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survival than the middle-aged (41-64 y) or old (>65 y) age groups (65% vs 52% and 35%, respectively). Young patients also had a lower
recurrence rate and a lower incidence of second primaries than their older counterparts.
An astute caveat to these reported 5-year survival rates, as pointed out by Vargas and colleagues, is the difference between 5-year overall
survival and 5-year disease-free survival. In their series of 17 female patients younger than age 40 with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
(SCC) and 17 controls matched for stage, the 5-year overall survival of the study group was 65%, but the 5-year disease-free survival was
only 47%.
[47 ]
This distinction between “alive with no evidence of disease” and “alive with disease” was not explicitly addressed in the NCDB,
SEER, Scandinavian, or Washington University studies above.
[14,4,9,48 ]
Young, otherwise healthy patients may be able to survive with
incurable disease longer than their older counterparts, and this may confound studies based on cancer databases that do not make this
distinction.
Patterns of recurrence
Several small case series have been published reporting young patients with a high rate of locoregional recurrence.
[1,49,50,46 ]
These case
series may be subject to publication or referral bias but do highlight a subset of young patients that may have more aggressive disease.
Another explanation for the higher local recurrence rate could be a lack of appropriate initial surgical treatment. Because of their young age,
these patients may not have been as aggressively treated as their older counterparts, although in the absence of details about margin
assessment and extent of resection, this would be speculation.
Two small, matched control studies
[28,47 ]
and one retrospective institutional series
[22 ]
also found high locoregional recurrence in younger
patients compared with older patients, but none demonstrated a corresponding difference in 5-year survival. On the contrary, Von Doersten
and colleagues did not find age to affect recurrence at all in a multivariate analysis on 155 patients, of whom 23 were under age 40.
[51 ]
Thus,
whether young patients, or a subset thereof, have a higher propensity for locoregional recurrence has yet to be definitely determined.
Second primary tumors
In patients of all ages who have been treated for HNSCC, the risk of development of second primaries increases over time
[52 ]
and is linked to
tobacco consumption.
[3 ]
In a matched control study, Verschuur and colleagues found a decreased incidence of second primaries among
patients younger than 40 years compared with older patients (8% versus 18%) over 10 years, but this may have been confounded by the
higher proportion of smokers in the older age group.
[3 ]
Similarly, Lacy and colleagues in a retrospective database review in which 40 of the
1030 patients were age 40 or younger, the risk of recurrence or second primary tumors was significantly lower than in the older age groups.
[48
]
Young patients may have a lower incidence of second primaries, at least in the short term. However, for those young patients who developed
cancer in the absence of known risk factors, the continued presence of an unknown risk factor should be assumed. These as-of-yet
unidentified risk factors may have long incubation times and patients may not present with another primary for decades after treatment of the
first cancer. Only long term-studies on young patients who have been treated for HNSCC will answer these questions. In the meantime, young
patients cured of their first primary deserve long-term adherence to routine follow-up and cancer surveillance, regardless of the etiology.
Medicolegal Pitfalls
In Byers’s 1975 publication, he wrote, “the failure of physicians to vigorously investigate a persistent ulcer of the tongue in a patient less than
thirty years of age resulted in considerable delay in diagnosis of many of these patients.” Enough evidence in the literature confirms that young
patients can develop malignancy to warrant a high level of suspicion for cancer in any patient with worrying signs and symptoms, regardless of
age.
Academic health professionals must continually update and educate our colleagues in the community regarding the identification and
appropriate workup or referral for patients presenting with sings and symptoms of head and neck cancer.
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In 2006, the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network published its national clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of head and
neck cancer.
[53 ]
Future Directions and Controversies
More than 3 decades after the first reports focusing on young patients with head and neck cancer, much remains to be learned about this
subset of patients. The low incidence of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in the young patient has made development of
prospective studies and analysis of single-institution data difficult. With the advent of more sophisticated and cooperative multi-institutional
cancer databases, further details regarding the prognosis and treatment response of young patients may become available.
As more is learned about the association of human papillomavirus (HPV) with head and neck cancer, screening and chemopreventive
strategies may have a larger role in preventing the development of HNSCC in all patients. The young patient may particularly benefit from
population-based programs because they may be intercepted at an age prior to infection with HPV.
Finally, an as-of-yet-unidentified genetic defect, error in immune surveillance, or environmental exposure may be implicated in cancer
development in the young patient. Future research should be directed toward identifying these risk factors.
Multimedia
Media file 1: Reddening of the soft palate, perhaps with scattered areas of white and velvet red
patches, tobacco-induced squamous cell carcinoma involving the tongue base and/or supraglottis, and
a firm, mobile mass that is palpable at the left carotid bifurcation.
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