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SUBMITTER: Tiziani S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2647729 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tiziani Stefano S Lopes Victor V Günther Ulrich L UL
Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) 20090301 3
Oral cancer is the eighth most common cancer worldwide and represents a significant disease burden. If detected at an early stage, survival from oral cancer is better than 90% at 5 years, whereas late stage disease survival is only 30%. Therefore, there is an obvious clinical utility for novel metabolic markers that help to diagnose oral cancer at an early stage and to monitor treatment response. In the current study, blood samples of oral cancer patients were analyzed using nuclear magnetic res ...[more]