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- Title
Clinical, genomic, and metagenomic characterization of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma in patients who do not smoke.
- Authors
Li, Ryan; Faden, Daniel L.; Fakhry, Carole; Langelier, Chaz; Jiao, Yuchen; Wang, Yuxuan; Wilkerson, Matthew D.; Pedamallu, Chandra Sekhar; Old, Matthew; Lang, James; Loyo, Myriam; Ahn, Sun Mi; Tan, Marietta; Gooi, Zhen; Chan, Jason; Richmon, Jeremy; Wood, Laura D.; Hruban, Ralph H.; Bishop, Justin; Westra, William H.
- Abstract
Background Evidence suggests the incidence of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma is increasing in young patients, many who have no history of tobacco use. Methods We clinically reviewed 89 patients with oral tongue cancer. Exomic sequencing of tumor DNA from 6 nonsmokers was performed and compared to previously sequenced cases. RNA from 20 tumors was evaluated by massively parallel sequencing to search for potentially oncogenic viruses. Results Non-smokers (53 of 89) were younger than smokers (36 of 89; mean, 50.4 vs 61.9 years; p < .001), and seemed more likely to be women (58.5% vs 38.9%; p = .069). Nonsmokers had fewer TP53 mutations ( p = .02) than smokers. No tumor-associated viruses were detected. Conclusion The young age of nonsmoking patients with oral tongue cancer and fewer TP53 mutations suggest a viral role in this disease. Our efforts to identify such a virus were unsuccessful. Further studies are warranted to elucidate the drivers of carcinogenesis in these patients. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 37: 1642-1649, 2015
- Subjects
TONGUE diseases; SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma; TOBACCO use; TUMORS; ONCOGENIC viruses
- Publication
Head & Neck, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 11, p1642
- ISSN
1043-3074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hed.23807