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Genetic aberrations in oral or head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCCHN): 1. Carcinogen metabolism, DNA repair and cell cycle control.
Oral oncology - 1 May 2000
Scully C, Field J K, Tanzawa H
Abstract excerpt
The ability to metabolise carcinogens or pro-carcinogens, repair DNA damage, and control cell signalling and the cell cycle are fundamental to homeostasis. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (oral cancer) and many squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck (SCCHN) may, under appropriate exposure to mutagens, arise if these mechanisms are defective. SCCHN arise as a consequence of multiple molecular events induced by...
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