Journal
DENTISTRY JOURNAL
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/dj10040070
Keywords
oral cancer; early diagnosis; biomarkers; saliva
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- Croatian Science Foundation [IP-2014-9376]
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This study aims to determine the levels of SCCA1, SCCA2, and TROP2 in the saliva of patients with T1N0M0 OSCC and compare them with healthy individuals. The results show that SCCA1 and SCCA2 levels are significantly different in the saliva of early-stage OSCC patients and could potentially serve as biomarkers for early diagnosis.
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is frequently diagnosed in the advanced stages. The purpose of this paper is to determine the salivary values of SCCA1, SCCA2 and TROP2 in patients with T1N0M0 OSCC and to compare them with the values obtained from healthy individuals. Unstimulated (UWS) and stimulated (SWS) saliva was sampled from 29 patients with T1N0M0 OSCC and 29 sex- and age-matched healthy individuals. Statistical difference was observed in SCCA1 and SCCA2 levels both in UWS and SWS samples. TROP2 was not measurable in most of the salivary samples. Both SCCA1 and SCCA2 could represent potential biomarkers for the early-stage OSCC. Research on a larger sample and biomarker validation is needed to assess the clinical potential of SCCA1 and SCCA2 in the OSCC early diagnostics.
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