How to Use oropharyngeal in a Sentence

oropharyngeal

adjective

• Many people have also been tested with a long throat swab, known as an oropharyngeal swab.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2020
• This explains in part why oropharyngeal cancer is rising among older people.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 8 June 2023
• Very rarely, oral HPV can lead to a certain type of head and neck cancer known as oropharyngeal cancer.
  — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2025
• Two doctors gave him antibiotics before he was diagnosed with late-stage oropharyngeal cancer.
  — Martha Shade, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
• Adam Greenfield Treatment for oropharyngeal cancer can be brutal.
  — Lisa Doggett, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
• Scientists know that most oropharyngeal cancer is caused by HPV 16.
  — Health.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Iowa has the highest rate of oropharyngeal cancer in the country, which affects the middle part of the throat, and is often caused by HPV.
  — Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 22 Jan. 2026
• In 2014, he was diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer and took a year-long hiatus, but has since recovered and released async this spring.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2017
• Mehanna attributed the spike to a rise in a type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer, which affects the tonsils and other structures in the back of the throat that make up the oropharynx.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 8 June 2023
• Men The vaccine has significant benefits for men to prevent oropharyngeal cancer, which is cancer of the throat, tonsils, and back of tongue.
  — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Mar. 2025
• Fortunately, there was some medical equipment on board — including an oropharyngeal airway, a device used to open a patient’s airway.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• About 70% of oropharyngeal cancers are caused by HPV, and there are currently no screening guidelines for the disease.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
• The rate of oral cancer among people in this group was more than double that of the control group, while the rate of oropharyngeal cancers was almost five times as high, and the rate of laryngeal cancers was more than eight as high.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 14 Aug. 2024
• The fifth type — an oropharyngeal specimen — is not recommended by the CDC, but is acceptable, and swabs the throat and tonsils.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• No association was seen between tea consumption and oral cavity or oropharyngeal cancers.
  — New Atlas, 30 Dec. 2024
• No such screening test exists for oropharyngeal sites the tongue, soft palate, tonsils, the throat behind the nasal cavity and symptoms usually don't appear until cancer is advanced.
  — Marie McCullough, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• No such screening test exists for oropharyngeal sites - the tongue, soft palate, tonsils, the throat behind the nasal cavity - and symptoms usually don’t appear until cancer is advanced.
  — Marie McCullough, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
• The five-year survival rate for all types of oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers is 91%—meaning that 91% of people with lip cancer are still alive five years after their diagnosis.
  — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 31 Dec. 2024
• Doctors have recently experienced an uptick in oropharyngeal, or throat cancer, cases that are related to HPV.
  — Claire Lampen, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
• He was diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer in 2014, but the following year cautiously announced that his condition had improved.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023
• Cancers of the brain and other nervous system, soft tissue, and oropharyngeal cancers linked to human papillomavirus (HPV) also increased.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Jan. 2019
• In addition to an oropharyngeal airway, Raines used an other medical device called bag valve mask, which provides positive pressure ventilation to a patient who is not breathing properly.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• The vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective in the prevention of HPV infection and has the potential to decrease cervical, vaginal, vulvar, and oropharyngeal (throat) cancers.
  — Ian Fields, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
• Researchers who conducted that study found that the risk of head and neck cancer — particularly laryngeal, oropharyngeal, oral, and salivary cancers — was 2 to 8 times higher for people with cannabis use disorder compared with people without.
  — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• It is believed to cause about 70 percent of oropharyngeal cancers — tumors of the back of the throat, the base of the tongue and the tonsils, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Ciccone's death in February was reportedly caused by several health issues, including oropharyngeal cancer, with tobacco use being listed as a contributing factor, per the outlet.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2023
• There’s a prototype robot, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to remotely collect oropharyngeal swabs from patients for testing, so a medical worker doesn’t have to directly swab the patient.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2020
• In hope of beating oropharyngeal cancer, Becker researched clinical trials after the disease recurred in December 2016, barely a year after initial treatment.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• One 2022 article published in the Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy journal predicted oropharyngeal cancer would be among the most common cancers in men by 2045.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 23 June 2026