Changes in the 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging of head and neck cancer: rationale and implications

DK Zanoni, SG Patel, JP Shah - Current oncology reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The objectives of this article are to review the major changes in
the staging of head and neck cancers and the rationale for the modifications. Recent …

Rate of malignant transformation of oral lichen planus: A systematic review

M Giuliani, G Troiano, M Cordaro, M Corsalini… - Oral …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature to determine:(a)
the malignant transformation rate (TR) of oral lichen planus (OLP) and its risk factors;(b) …

Long‐term survival in head and neck cancer: impact of site, stage, smoking, and human papillomavirus status

E Du, AL Mazul, D Farquhar, P Brennan… - The …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives/Hypothesis Literature examining long‐term survival in head and neck squamous
cell carcinoma (HNSCC) with human papillomavirus (HPV) status is lacking. We compare 10 …

Oral cavity cancer

KS Ettinger, L Ganry… - Oral and …, 2019 - oralmaxsurgery.theclinics.com
Squamous cell carcinoma represents the most common form of head and neck cancer—
comprising approximately 90% of all head and neck malignancies. 1 Squamous cell …

Machine learning to predict occult nodal metastasis in early oral squamous cell carcinoma

AM Bur, A Holcomb, S Goodwin, J Woodroof… - Oral oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives To develop and validate an algorithm to predict occult nodal metastasis in
clinically node negative oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) using machine …

Surgical consensus guidelines on sentinel node biopsy (SNB) in patients with oral cancer

C Schilling, SJ Stoeckli, MG Vigili, R de Bree… - Head & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The eighth international symposium for sentinel node biopsy (SNB) in head and
neck cancer was held in 2018. This consensus conference aimed to deliver current …

[HTML][HTML] The role of extracellular vesicles from different origin in the microenvironment of head and neck cancers

C Xie, N Ji, Z Tang, J Li, Q Chen - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
The proliferation and metastasis ability of tumors are mediate by the" mutual dialogue"
between cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Extracellular vesicles (EVs), mainly …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for determining HPV status in patients with oropharyngeal cancers under TNM8 guidelines: a two-tier approach

SG Craig, LA Anderson, AG Schache, M Moran… - British Journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Background TNM8 staging for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCC)
surrogates p16 immunohistochemistry for HPV testing. Patients with p16+ OPSCC may lack …

[HTML][HTML] Radiomics features of the primary tumor fail to improve prediction of overall survival in large cohorts of CT-and PET-imaged head and neck cancer patients

RB Ger, S Zhou, B Elgohari, H Elhalawani… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Radiomics studies require many patients in order to power them, thus patients are often
combined from different institutions and using different imaging protocols. Various studies …

Matrix stiffness mechanically conditions EMT and migratory behavior of oral squamous cell carcinoma

BF Matte, A Kumar, JK Placone… - Journal of cell …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Tumors are composed of heterogeneous phenotypes, each having different sensitivities to
the microenvironment. One microenvironment characteristic–matrix stiffness–helps to …