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JOURNAL OF ORAL PATHOLOGY & MEDICINE
Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 83-88Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jop.12334
Keywords
local recurrence; loss of heterozygosity; oral squamous cell carcinoma; surgical margins
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81170971]
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BackgroundOral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is characterized by a high rate of local recurrence (LR) even when the surgical margins are considered histopathologically normal'. The aim of our study was to determine the relationship between early tumor-related markers detected in histologically normal margins (HNM) and LR as well as disease-free survival in OSCC. MethodsThe loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of markers on 9p21 (D9s1747, RPS6, D9s162) and 17p13 (TP53) and the immunostaining results of the corresponding mutant P53, P14, P15, and P16 proteins were assessed and correlated with LR and disease-free survival in 71 OSCC patients who had HNM. ResultsFifteen of 71 patients with HNM developed LR. The presence of the following molecular markers in surgical margins was significantly correlated with the development of LR: LOH on chromosome 9p21 (D9s1747+RPS6+D9s162), any LOH, P16, and P53 (chi-square test, P<0.05). The presence of TP53 LOH, 9p21 LOH, any LOH, P15, P16, P53, P16+D9s1747, and P53+TP53 had a significant effect on LR (Kaplan-Meier analysis, P<0.05). P16+D9s1747 was the most predictive factor using multivariate Cox analyses. ConclusionsDetection of tumor-related markers in histologically normal' resection margins may be a useful method for assessing LR in OSCC patients.
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