Smoking and Oral Cancer
There are hundreds of chemicals in smoke, many of which are cancer-causing or carcinogenic in nature.
There are hundreds of chemicals in smoke, many of which are cancer-causing or carcinogenic in nature.
Saliva is a valuable body fluid for liquid biopsies. Still, the challenge of isolating good-quality RNA from saliva has hindered previous efforts to use saliva for liquid biopsy.
It includes malignancy of the vermillion borders of the lips and all surfaces of the oral cavity including the anterior two-thirds of the tongue. These cancers occur predominantly as squamous cell carcinomas, and are highly lethal, incapacitating, and disfiguring.
Sharda University and Oncocur India to conduct research on Brecan Plus, a nano-curcumin supplement hypothesised to play a crucial role in prevention of progression of lesions to oral cancer.
