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SUBMITTER: Liu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5542248 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Liu Yao Y Li Yicheng Y Fu Yue Y Liu Tong T Liu Xiaoyong X Zhang Xinyan X Fu Jie J Guan Xiaobing X Chen Tong T Chen Xiaoxin X Sun Zheng Z
Oncotarget 20170701 28
Exfoliative cytology has been widely used for early diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma. We have developed an oral cancer risk index using DNA index value to quantitatively assess cancer risk in patients with oral leukoplakia, but with limited success. In order to improve the performance of the risk index, we collected exfoliative cytology, histopathology, and clinical follow-up data from two independent cohorts of normal, leukoplakia and cancer subjects (training set and validation set). ...[more]