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Potential use of quantitative tissue phenotype to predict malignant risk for oral premalignant lesions.
Cancer research - 1 May 2008
Guillaud Martial, Zhang Lewei, Poh Catherine, Rosin Miriam P, MacAulay Calum
Abstract excerpt
The importance of early diagnosis in improving mortality and morbidity rates of oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has long been recognized. However, a major challenge for early diagnosis is our limited ability to differentiate oral premalignant lesions (OPL) at high risk of progressing into invasive SCC from those at low risk. We investigated the potential of quantitative tissue phenotype (QTP), measured by...
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