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Ras oncogenes in oral cancer: The past 20 years
12 January 2012
Summary: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) of head and neck is associated with high morbidity and mortality in both Western and Asian countries. Several risk factors for the development of oral canc...
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Avaniyapuram Kannan Murugan,
Arasambattu Kannan Munirajan,
Nobuo Tsuchida
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383-392
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Review of drug treatment of oral submucous fibrosis
29 December 2011
Summary: This study undertook a review of the literature on drug treatment of oral submucous fibrosis. An electronic search was carried out for articles published between January 1960 to November 2011...
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Revant H. Chole,
Shailesh M. Gondivkar,
Amol R. Gadbail,
Swati Balsaraf,
Sudesh Chaudhary,
Snehal V. Dhore,
Sumeet Ghonmode,
Satish Balwani,
Mugdha Mankar,
Manish Tiwari,
Rima V. Parikh
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393-398
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Primary malignant melanoma, of head and neck: A comprehensive review of literature
20 January 2012
Summary: Malignant melanoma; since long time is considered as deadly disease, but risk factor is minimized due to new technologies, substantial literatures, and promising treatments. The diverse etiop...
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A.K. Vikey,
Deepali Vikey
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399-403
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Association between the rs2910164 polymorphism in pre-mir-146a and oral carcinoma progression
19 December 2011
Summary: MicroRNAs are short non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by RNA interference. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a prevalent malignancy worldwide. miR-146a has been reported to r...
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Pei-Shi Hung,
Kuo-Wei Chang,
Shou-Yen Kao,
Ting-Hui Chu,
Chung-Ji Liu,
Shu-Chun Lin
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404-408
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HMGB1 is overexpressed in tumor cells and promotes activity of regulatory T cells in patients with head and neck cancer
24 January 2012
Summary: HMGB1 has gained a prominent role in cancer development and is implicated in tumor escape phenomena. To date, only few data are available on effects of HMGB1 on regulatory T cells (Treg) in c...
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Clarissa A. Wild,
Sven Brandau,
Ramin Lotfi,
Stefan Mattheis,
Xiang Gu,
Stephan Lang,
Christoph Bergmann
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409-416
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Tumor-associated carbonic anhydrase XII is linked to the growth of primary oral squamous cell carcinoma and its poor prognosis
15 December 2011
Summary: The pattern of protein expression in tumors is under the influence of nutrient stress, hypoxia, and low pH, which determines the survival of neoplastic cells and the development of tumors. Ca...
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Ming-Hsien Chien,
Tsung-Ho Ying,
Yi-Hsien Hsieh,
Chien-Huang Lin,
Chun-Han Shih,
Lin-Hung Wei,
Shun-Fa Yang
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417-423
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Increased serum placenta growth factor level is significantly associated with progression, recurrence and poor prognosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma
16 January 2012
Summary: We recently found that the expression of placenta growth factor (PlGF) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) specimens is correlated with the progression and prognosis of OSCC. In this study...
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Shih-Jung Cheng,
Jang-Jaer Lee,
Shih-Lung Cheng,
Hsin-Ming Chen,
Hao-Hueng Chang,
Yi-Ping Wang,
Sang-Heng Kok,
Mark Yen-Ping Kuo,
Chun-Pin Chiang
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424-428
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The prognostic value of histological typing in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
19 December 2011
Summary: We analyzed the relation of histological typing in late stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) with clinical outcome and excision repair cross complementation group 1 protein (ERCC1) expression...
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Florence Cheung,
Oscar Chan,
Wai Tong Ng,
Lucy Chan,
Anne Lee,
Siu Wah Pang
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429-433
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Enteral feeding outcomes after chemoradiotherapy for oropharynx cancer: A role for a prophylactic gastrostomy?
30 December 2011
Summary: To determine the outcomes of patients managed with different routes of enteral feeding during chemoradiotherapy for oropharynx cancer. The hospital and dietetic records of consecutive patient...
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Gillian F. Williams,
Mark T.W. Teo,
Mehmet Sen,
Karen E. Dyker,
Catherine Coyle,
Robin J.D. Prestwich
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434-440
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A phase II study of pemetrexed combined with cisplatin in patients with recurrent or metastatic nanopharyngeal carcinoma
29 December 2011
Summary: Pemetrexed is a novel chemotherapy agent with good efficacy and toxicity profiles. This phase II study aimed at evaluating its use in combination with cisplatin for recurrent or metastatic na...
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T.K. Yau,
T. Shum,
A.W.M. Lee,
M.W. Yeung,
W.T. Ng,
L. Chan
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441-444
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Treatment outcomes and prognostic features in adenoid cystic carcinoma originated from the head and neck
03 January 2012
Summary: Surgery is the main treatment modality for adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) originated from the head and neck. However, the extensive local infiltrative and perineural spread related to this ma...
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Chunying Shen,
Tingting Xu,
Caiping Huang,
Chaosu Hu,
Shaoqin He
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445-449
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Diagnostic value of CT and MRI in the detection of paratracheal lymph node metastasis
06 January 2012
Summary: The presence of paratracheal lymph node (PTLN) metastasis harbours a worse prognosis. Uniform guidelines on PTLN dissection are missing, mainly because of the value of diagnostic techniques f...
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Thomas T.A. Peters,
Jonas A. Castelijns,
Redina Ljumanovic,
Birgit I. Witte,
C. René Leemans,
Remco de Bree
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450-455
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Long-term treatment outcome of minor salivary gland carcinoma of the hard palate
16 January 2012
Summary: Minor salivary gland carcinoma of the hard palate is rare, and its long-term survival rate is high, making it difficult to evaluate the prognostic factors and the efficacy of treatment. This ...
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Quan Li,
Xin-Rui Zhang,
Xue-Kui Liu,
Zhi-Min Liu,
Wei-Wei Liu,
Hao Li,
Zhu-Ming Guo
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456-462
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Electron beam radiotherapy for tongue cancer using an intra-oral cone
12 January 2012
Summary: To explain the adaptation technique using an intra-oral cone (IOC) for radiation therapy, and to determine the optimal schedule resulting in a high local control rate and an acceptable compli...
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Naoya Kakimoto,
Shumei Murakami,
Atsutoshi Nakatani,
Yasuo Yoshioka,
Kimishige Shimizutani,
Souhei Furukawa
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463-468
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Platelet-rich therapies in the treatment of intravenous bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: A report of 32 cases
20 January 2012
Summary: Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ) is an important complication in cancer patients taking intravenous BPs (BPs). In most cases, BRONJ is associated with an oral surgery p...
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Marco Mozzati,
Giorgia Gallesio,
Valentina Arata,
Renato Pol,
Matteo Scoletta
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469-474
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Comment on “Chole RH et al. Review of drug treatment of oral submucous fibrosis. Oral Oncol 2012; 48(5):393–398”
21 March 2012
We would like to congratulate Chole RH et al. for their article in press- “Review of drug treatment of oral submucous fibrosis”. They have extensively presented a review of all treatment modalities th...
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Samapika Routray,
Anagha Shete Motgi,
Aparajita Sunkavalli
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