ArticleCancer medicine2012
Differential expression of miRNAs in the serum of patients with high-risk oral lesions.
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- Expression Analysis, Diagnostic and Prognostic Accuracy of microRNAs in Oral Cancer: An Overview With Meta-Analysis.International dental journal · 2026Pooled it
- The Role of Liquid Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
- The clinical implications of circulating microRNAs as potential biomarkers in screening oral squamous cell carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Serum miR-16 as a potential biomarker for human cancer diagnosis: results from a large-scale population.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2019Pooled it
- Circulating MicroRNAs as Prognostic Molecular Biomarkers in Human Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Disease markers · 2019Pooled it
- Identification and Evaluation of Serum MicroRNA-29 Family for Glioma Screening.Molecular neurobiology · 2015Pooled it
- Clinical Diagnostic Implications of Body Fluid MiRNA in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Meta-Analysis.Medicine · 2015Pooled it
- The Potential Diagnostic Accuracy of Let-7 Family for Cancer: A Meta-Analysis.Technology in cancer research & treatmentPooled it
- Unraveling the molecular landscape: an overview on gene expression, epigenetic alterations, and therapeutic challenges in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2026Review
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- Molecular and Genetic Pathogenesis of Oral Cancer: A Basis for Customized Diagnosis and Treatment.Biology · 2025Review
- Identification of a serum-based microRNA signature that detects recurrent oral squamous cell carcinoma before it is clinically evident.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
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- Circulating miRNA as a Biomarker in Oral Cancer Liquid Biopsy.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Liquid biopsy in the assessment of microRNAs in oral squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2022Review
- Liquid Biopsy and Circulating Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Precancerous and Cancerous Oral Lesions.Non-coding RNA · 2022Review
- Promising Biomarkers in Head and Neck Cancer: The Most Clinically Important miRNAs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Non-Coding RNAs and Oral Cancer: Small Molecules With Big Functions.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Oral cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide. Disease is often diagnosed at later stages, which is associated with a poor 5-year survival rate and a high rate of local recurrence. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a group of small, noncoding RNAs, can be isolated from blood serum samples and have demonstrated utility as biomarkers in multiple cancer types. The aim of this study was to examine the expression profiles of circulating miRNAs in the serum of patients with high-risk oral lesions (HRLs; oral cancer or carcinoma in situ) and to explore their utility as potential oral cancer biomarkers. Global serum miRNA profiles were generated using quantitative PCR method from 1) patients diagnosed with HRLs and undergoing intent-to-cure surgical treatment (N = 30) and 2) a demographically matched, noncancer control group (N = 26). We next honed our list of serum miRNAs associated with disease by reducing the effects of interpatient variability; we compared serum miRNA profiles from samples taken both before and after tumor resections (N = 10). Based on these analyses, fifteen miRNAs were significantly upregulated and five were significantly downregulated based on presence of disease (minimum fold-change >2 in at least 50% of samples, P < 0.05, permutation). Five of these miRNAs (miR-16, let-7b, miR-338-3p, miR-223, and miR-29a) yielded an area under the ROC curve (AUC) >0.8, suggesting utility as noninvasive biomarkers for detection of oral cancer or high-grade lesions. Combining these serum miRNA profiles with other screening techniques could greatly improve the sensitivity in oral cancer detection.
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