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SUBMITTER: Chen C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4527746 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Chu C Zhang Yuzheng Y Loomis Melissa M MM Upton Melissa P MP Lohavanichbutr Pawadee P Houck John R JR Doody David R DR Mendez Eduardo E Futran Neal N Schwartz Stephen M SM Wang Pei P
PloS one 20150806 8
Oral squamous cell cancer of the oral cavity and oropharynx (OSCC) is associated with high case-fatality. For reasons that are largely unknown, patients with the same clinical and pathologic staging have heterogeneous response to treatment and different probability of recurrence and survival, with patients with Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal tumors having the most favorable survival. To gain insight into the complexity of OSCC and to identify potential chromosomal changes that ...[more]