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“Search less, verify more”—Reviewing salivary biomarkers in oral cancer detection
Author(s) -
Adeoye John,
Brennan Peter A.,
Thomson Peter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/jop.13003
Subject(s) - saliva , medicine , biomarker , head and neck cancer , cancer , head and neck squamous cell carcinoma , oral cavity , disease , basal cell , oncology , pathology , dentistry , biology , biochemistry
Oral squamous cell carcinoma is one of the commonest head and neck malignancies with approximately 350 000 cases reported annually and a mortality rate of 50% often attributed to late clinical presentation. Due to the close relationship between saliva bio‐fluid and tumour lesions, optimizing salivary biomarkers for disease detection and screening provides a major new research direction in diagnostic oral oncology. As inter‐tumour heterogeneity and intra‐tumour heterogeneity are common within oral cavity neoplasms, it is unlikely that a single diagnostic or “risk‐stratifying” saliva biomarker will suffice for universal translation to clinical practice. Therefore, this article highlights a number of promising saliva biomarker combinations for oral cavity cancer detection that require further research and validation to determine their true diagnostic potential.