Description

Oral cancer kills about 1 person every hour each day in the United States and is the 6th most prevalent cancer worldwide. In this study we utilized existing microarray data from a prior oral cancer study to examine the role of chronic pro-inflammatory mediators in oral carcionogenesis by comparing gene expression in oral tumors with adjacent non-tumor oral tissue from the same patient

Publication Title

Deletion of macrophage migration inhibitory factor inhibits murine oral carcinogenesis: Potential role for chronic pro-inflammatory immune mediators.

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Disease, Subject