Identification of allelic loss on chromosomes 8q and 13q in oral premalignancies and tumors

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is believed to progress through sequential stages of premalignancies to invasive cancer. Once cancer is formed, the prognosis is poor and the 5- year survival rate is less than 50%. It is important to develop new strategies to improve diagnosis in early stages a...

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Main Author: Xie, Liying
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14312