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Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue is a common malignancy treated by surgeons.
The risk factor for HIV transmission was homosexuality in 1 patient with small cell cancer and injection drug use in the other patient with squamous cell cancer.
It has also been documented that prostate epithelial cells exhibited squamous metaplastic phenotype during vitamin A deficiency [ 7 ] , and prostate cell carcinogenesis could be prevented by retinoic acid (RA) and its analogs in vitro [ 8 9 10 ] . These findings suggest that retinoid-dependent cellular events were involved in tumorigenic transformation of prostate epithelial cells.
A retrospective analysis of 75 patients undergoing primary surgical resection for squamous cell carcinoma of oral tongue between January 1997 and December 1998, in a single surgical unit, was carried out to evaluate the pattern of nodal metastasis and survival.
Examples include RPs L7a, L37 and S14 in prostate tumors and cell lines [ 20 ] ; RPs L5, L7A, L18, S3, S6, S8, S12, S13, S28, P0 and P1 in colorectal cancers and cell lines [ 21 22 23 24 25 26 ] ; L5 in astrocytomas [ 27 ] ; L18a in squamous cell carcinoma [ 28 ] ; L19 in breast tumors that over-express erbB-2 [ 29 ] ; RPs S3A, S4, and S17 in lymphoid malignancies [ 30 ] ; L38, S4, P0, and P1 in rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines [ 31 ] ; and P0, P1, P2, L5, L9, L35, L39, S3A, S10, and S17 in liver tumors [ 32 ] . In addition, as noted above, a recent SAGE study identified targets of N-myc in a human neuroblastoma cell line [ 18 ] . Of 114 up-regulated genes detected, 66 encoded RPs with elevations ranging from 40% to 37-fold.
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