Dental 4 Less, Predicting aggressiveness of oral cancer
Missouri researchers have found a pattern of gene expression associated with aggressive tumors that could produce a diagnostic test that could alter the clinical management of oral cancer patients.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered a way to predict the aggressiveness of similar tumors in humans by studying mouth cancer in mice, an early step toward a diagnostic test that could guide treatment. Their work was outlined in a recent issue of Clinical Cancer Research (June 1, 2014, Vol. 20:11, pp. 2873-2884).