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AUTHOR
G Colella
SALIVARY PROTEOME ANALYSIS BY 2D-PAGE AND SELDI-TOF/MS TO SEARCH POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS OF ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
Aim. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common malignant tumor of the oral cavity and is a neoplasia characterized by a poor prognosis. In fact, the estimated survival rate is 44% after 5 years from the diagnosis. The prognosis of the disease is significantly related to the stage in which the disease is diagnosed. Moreover the therapies are not very efficient and are so invasive, disfiguring and debilitating that in the survivors the quality of life is poor. Nowadays there is not a reliable and non-invasive method for early diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma and the simple visual examination of the oral cavity is characterized by a low sensitivity and specificity, also b…
Oral mucositis: a survey on changes in the proteomic profile
Objectives. Oral mucositis is the most severe complication of anticancer therapy. It occurs in 40-85% of patients during chemotherapy and radiotherapy but also in patients who have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The symptoms for oral mucositis are burning and severe pain oral, spontaneous bleeding, dysphagia, dysarthria and odynophagia; especially pain and burning sensation on swallowing contribute to decreased quality of life for oncologic patients and, in severe cases, may also force the patient to feed parenterally (1). Furthermore, if the mucositis is severe it can lead to partial or complete interruption of radiotherapy before completion of the treatment protocol wi…
Effective use of a sodium-hyaluronate spray formulation in oral mucositis
Background andaims: Orai mucositis (OM) is one of thè most frequent and potentially severe acute side effect of non-surgical cancer therapy which often leads to significant morbidity, mortality and decreased quality of life. Today a standard and universally accepted management strategy to prevent and treat it does not exist. Given thè key role played by connective damage in its pathogenesis, thè use of a compound which promotes thè extracellular matrix regeneration couìd be a valid therapeutic strategy. In this regard, thè use of hyaluronic acid, that plays an important role in orai lissue healing by means of several mechanisms, has been showed to provide good results in managing OM. The ai…
Up to a quarter of patients with osteonecrosis of the jaw associated with antiresorptive agents remain undiagnosed
AbstractRecent data suggest that the traditional definition of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) may exclude patients who present with the non-exposed variant of the condition. To test the hypothesis that a proportion of patients with ONJ remain undiagnosed because their symptoms do not conform to the traditional case definition, we did a secondary analysis of data from MISSION (Multicentre study on phenotype, definition and classification of osteonecrosis of the jaws associated with bisphosphonates), a cross-sectional study of a large population of patients with bisphosphonate-associated ONJ who were recruited in 13 European centres. Patients with exposed and non-exp…