Open AccessStatus of trace elements in saliva of oral precancer and oral cancer patients
Author(s) -
Shishir Ram Shetty,
Subhas Babu,
Suchetha Kumari N,
Pushparaja Shetty,
Shruthi Hegde,
Arvind Karikal
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.137973
Subject(s) - saliva , cancer , trace (psycholinguistics) , medicine , oral cancers , philosophy , linguistics
Several studies in recent years have linked association between micronutrient levels and various forms of cancer. Copper and zinc have been the most researched micronutrients.