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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2015 Dec 23;9(2):135–141. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-15-0299

Table 2.

Changes in antibody levels in patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer over time1

Overall study population Subset: ISH HPV16-positive subjects

Serology N Mean ± SE2 P-value3 P-trend3 N Mean ± SE2 P-value3 P-trend3

E1 0.066 0.168
Pre-Treatment 43 −0.508 ± 0.223 - 31 −0.323 ± 0.228 -
Early Post-Treatment 29 −0.559 ± 0.235 0.730 21 −0.326 ± 0.242 0.985
Late post-treatment 37 −0.816 ± 0.227 0.024 27 −0.584 ± 0.232 0.082

E2 0.166 0.019
Pre-Treatment 43 0.032 ± 0.191 - 31 0.296 ± 0.166 -
Early Post-Treatment 29 0.047 ± 0.200 0.896 21 0.199 ± 0.170 0.212
Late post-treatment 37 −0.148 ± 0.194 0.092 27 0.092 ± 0.167 0.005

E6 0.001 <0.0001
Pre-Treatment 43 −1.272 ± 0.148 - 31 −1.175 ± 0.143 -
Early Post-Treatment 29 −1.484 ± 0.163 0.114 21 −1.471 ± 0.149 0.001
Late post-treatment 37 −1.736 ± 0.153 0.0003 27 −1.594 ± 0.145 <0.0001

E7 <0.0001 <0.0001
Pre-Treatment 43 −0.381 ± 0.187 - 31 −0.265 ± 0.188 -
Early Post-Treatment 29 −0.692 ± 0.201 0.031 21 −0.530 ± 0.194 0.006
Late post-treatment 37 −1.049 ± 0.192 <0.0001 27 −0.822 ± 0.190 <0.0001
1

This analysis was restricted to subjects with available pre-treatment serology measurements

2

Estimated log-transformed mean. SE denotes standard error.

3

Comparison relative to pre-treatment measurements based on linear mixed effects models taking into account the within-subject correlation