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TERT promoter mutation in patients with second primary of tongue squamous cell carcinoma.
Oral oncology - 1 Mar 2021
Erkul Evren, Yilmaz Ismail
Abstract excerpt
It is well known that head and neck squamous cell carcinomas are characterized by genetic alterations, genomic instability and different immune defects and Telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter mutations have been found with high rates in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinomas. We presented a non-smoker, no alcohol consuming woman who had a second primary tongue SCC after four and a half years later of...
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