Head and Neck Cancer
Genes linked to hypopharyngeal cancer identified
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 28th, 2004
"Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most common cancer among men in the developed world," oncologists in France explained. "There is a need, for both clinical and scientific reasons, to find markers to identify patients with aggressive disease as early as possible, and to understand the events leading to malignant transformation and susceptibility to metastasis."
Towards this end, A. Cromer and colleagues at the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire in Illkirch conducted "the first large-scale gene...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-09-28)
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