Clinical trialNCT00508170CompletedObservational

Sexual Behavior in Oropharyngeal Patients Versus Head and Neck Cancer Patients, With or Without HPV Infection

SponsorM.D. Anderson Cancer CenterEnrollment252Head and Neck CancerHuman Papillomavirus InfectionOropharyngeal Cancer

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Summary

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Primary Objectives: 1. To determine whether high-risk sexual behaviors are more common in patients with oropharyngeal cancer than in patients with head and neck cancers of other sub-sites. 2. To determine if high-risk sexual behaviors are more common in patients with HPV (human papillomavirus) associated head and neck cancer than those without evidence of HPV-16 infection.

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Investigators

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Erich Sturgis, MD
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Ut Md Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Mar 2006
Primary completion: 31 Jan 2010
Completion: 31 Jan 2010
Last update posted: 30 Jul 2012
Registered enrollment: 252
Registry id: NCT00508170

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.