Squamous Cell Carcinoma
New findings from University Hospital in the area of squamous cell carcinoma described
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 11th, 2010
A new study, 'Lysyl oxidase expression is an independent marker of prognosis and a predictor of lymph node metastasis in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC),' is now available. "Proteins of the lysyl oxidase (LOX) family are important modulators of the extracellular matrix. However, they have an important role in the tumor development as well as in tumor progression," researchers in Zurich, Switzerland report.
"To evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic value of the LOX protein in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) we performed QRT-PCR and immunohistochemical analysis on two tissue microarrays (622 tissue samples in total)....
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