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The distribution of cervical lymph node metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma at different subsites in the oral cavity has been described before [ 3 4 5 ] . However, there are very few studies from India, where the incidence of tongue cancer is high.
Of these 14 patients, the highest degree of abnormality in 4 was metaplasia, in 4 dysplasia, in 3 CIS, in 1 invasive squamous cell carcinoma, and in 2 invasive adenocarcinoma.
We tested in this investigation the hypothesis that M6P/IGF2R loss of heterozygosity in locally advanced, non-metastatic squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck is associated with poorer patient prognosis.
The CD98 molecule is also widely expressed on rapidly growing non-hematopoietic cells, where it may modulate oncogenic transformation [ 10 11 ] , metal ion transport [ 12 13 ] , cell fusion [ 14 15 ] , and amino acid transport [ 16 17 18 19 ] . CD98 is also expressed on normal proliferating tissue such as the basal layer of squamous epithelia [ 20 ] and on cells having secretion or transport functions [ 21 ] . Understanding of the role of CD98 in amino acid transport has been greatly enhanced with the recent cloning and characterization of multiple CD98 light chains.
Second, there has been a shift in the predominant type of lung cancer from squamous cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma in the United States over the past twenty years [ 4, 31].