Title of article
An insight into salivary markers in oral cancer
Author/Authors
Belur Krishna Prasad, Ramnarayan Department of Oral Medicine - Diagnosis and Radiology - The Oxford Dental College and Hospital - Bommanahalli, India , Sharma, Akhilesh Department of Oral Medicine - Pedodontics - The Oxford Dental College and Hospital - Bommanahalli, India , Mysore Babu, Harsha Department of Oral Medicine - Periodontics - Dayananda Sagar College of Dental Sciences - Shavige Malleswara Hills - Kumaraswamy Layout - Bangalore, India
Pages
9
From page
287
To page
295
Abstract
Salivary diagnostics has fascinated many researcheres and has been tested as a valuable tool in the
diagnosis of many systemic conditions and for drug monitoring. Advances in the field of molecular
biology, salivary genomics and proteomics have led to the discovery of new molecular markers for
oral cancer diagnosis, therapeutics and prognosis. Oral cancer is a potentially fatal disease and the
outcome of the treatment and prognosis largely depends on early diagnosis. Abnormal cellular
products elucidated from malignant cells can be detected and measured in various body fluids
including saliva and constitute tumor markers. This article discusses the various salivary tumor
markers and their role in oral pre‑cancer and cancer.
Keywords
DNA markers , oral cancer , protein markers , RNA markers , salivary markers , tumor markers
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2013
Record number
2475862
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