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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Archanjo AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7316707 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200625 1
Oral cancer squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) mainly affects individuals aged between 50 and 70 years who consume tobacco and alcohol. Tobacco smoke contains hundreds of known toxic and carcinogenic molecules, and a few studies have sought to verify the relationship of such trace elements as risk or prognostic factors for head and neck cancer. We obtained 78 samples of tumor tissues from patients with OCSCC, and performed a qualitative elemental characterization using the micro X-Ray Fluorescence ...[more]