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Oral squamous cell carcinoma; from an hypothesis about a virus, to concern about possible sexual transmission.
Oral oncology - 1 Apr 2002
Scully Crispian
Abstract excerpt
Nearly two decades ago, we produced the first evidence for the presence of viral nucleic acids in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) tissues, hypothesising that there may be a viral involvement in at least some OSCC. Subsequently, human papillomaviruses (HPV) in particular have been implicated in OSCC. Antibody responses to HPV are seen and HPV-DNA detected in tumors by us and many others, the virus being mainly...
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