J-P Foy, C Bertolus, M-C Michallet, S Deneuve, R Incitti, N Bendriss-Vermare, M-A Albaret, S Ortiz-Cuaran, E Thomas, A Colombe, C Py, N Gadot, J-P Michot, J Fayette, A Viari, B Van den Eynde, P Goudot, M Devouassoux-Shisheboran, A Puisieux, C Caux, P Zrounba, S Lantuejoul, P Saintigny
Background: Never-smokers and never-drinkers patients (NSND) suffering from oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) are epidemiologically different from smokers drinkers (SD). We therefore hypothesized that they harbored distinct targetable molecular alterations. Patients and methods: Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) (discovery set), Gene Expression Omnibus and Centre Léon Bérard (CLB) (three validation sets) with available gene expression profiles of HPV-negative OSCC from NSND and SD were mined...
August 1, 2017: Annals of Oncology: Official Journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology