Variations in Oral Microbiota Composition Are Associated With a Risk of Throat Cancer

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In this study, a next-generation sequencing strategy on 16S rRNA gene was employed to analyze 70 oral samples from 32 patients with throat cancer, 9 patients with vocal cord polyp and 29 healthy individuals (normal controls). Using this strategy, we demonstrated for the first time that the salivary microbiota of cancer patients were significantly different from those of patients with polyp and healthy...

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