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ArticleOncology letters2025

Salivary miRNAs as a novel therapeutic marker in a patient with advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma: A case report.

Taku Kimura, Ken-Ichiro Sakata, Noritaka Ohga, Jun Sato, Tatsuki Itagaki, Takeshi Munekata, Aya Yanagawa-Matsuda, Taku Maeda, Masahiro Hojo, Kanako C Hatanaka and 2 more

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Taku KimuraDepartment of Oral Diagnosis and Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Ken-Ichiro SakataDepartment of Oral Diagnosis and Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Noritaka OhgaDepartment of Oral Diagnosis and Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Jun SatoDepartment of Oral Diagnosis and Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Tatsuki ItagakiDepartment of Oral Diagnosis and Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Takeshi MunekataDepartment of Oral Diagnosis and Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Aya Yanagawa-MatsudaDepartment of Vascular Biology and Molecular Pathology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8586, Japan.
Taku MaedaDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8648, Japan.
Masahiro HojoDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8648, Japan.
Kanako C HatanakaCenter for Development of Advanced Diagnostics, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8648, Japan.
Yutaka HatanakaCenter for Development of Advanced Diagnostics, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8648, Japan.
Hisashi IizasaDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Shimane 693-8501, Japan.

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Abstract

The global prevalence of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has been increasing. OSCC at the advanced stage tends to resist conventional treatment and causes local recurrence and distant metastasis, resulting in poor prognosis. Therefore, detecting this cancer at an early stage and performing early intervention are important. Promising biomarkers to detect OSCC have yet to be established; however, microRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) serve a crucial role in OSCC tumorigenesis and may be potential biomarkers. In the present case report, the availability of salivary miRNAs as a therapeutic and prognostic marker for patients with OSCC was assessed. The patient was a 33-year-old woman who was diagnosed with advanced OSCC of the tongue, and their miRNA profile isolated from a saliva sample at each clinical course was evaluated. Microarray analysis of the salivary samples revealed changes in the levels of four miRNAs (hsa-miR-6798-5p, miR-6803-5p, miR-6805-5p and miR-6845-5p) in accordance with the clinical course. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgical procedure decreased the levels, whereas the levels increased when the patient was diagnosed with lung metastasis. Furthermore, tongue and lung metastatic lesion specimens exhibited expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2, which is regulated by the four miRNAs. Accordingly, the present report proposed that salivary miRNAs could be a therapeutic and prognostic biomarker for OSCC.

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biomarkerOSCCsalivary microRNAstherapeutic biomarkerVEGFR-2

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