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Correlation of p53 expression with Clinical Presentation and Prognosis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients: A Pilot Study

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Mutations of p53 gene is one of the most common events in human cancers including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). However, its role in carcinogenesis and association with regard to prognosis is still under investigation and unclear. The aim was to study the expression of p53 in patients of OSCC and correlation with clinical presentation and prognosis. In this retrospective observational pilot study, we examined expression of p53 in 50 histologically diagnosed cases of OSCC and correlated it with initial clinical presentation and clinical events in follow up period. p53 expression was significantly negative (94%) in patients with history of only oral tobacco consumption while cases with additional history of smoking or alcohol were positive (p = 0.0001 and 0.011). On the other hand, aggressive course of the disease was found to be significant with p53 positivity in the form of lymph nodal extension (13 out of 17 cases) (p = 0.011) and recurrence (6 out of 10 cases) (p = 0.024). p53 was overexpressed (positive) in predisposing factors like smoking and alcohol but not in OSCC associated with chewing tobacco. p53 overexpression is also associated with advanced TNM stage. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report where association of p53 overexpression and oral tobacco consumption associated OSCC was not observed and we recommend that carcinogenic events in chewing tobacco induced OSCC should be studied separately for its unique set of mutations.

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We would like to acknowledge Kasturba Health Society, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra, India for partial funding for this study.

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Deshmukh, A.V., Gupta, A., Chaudhari, A.G. et al. Correlation of p53 expression with Clinical Presentation and Prognosis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients: A Pilot Study. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 74 (Suppl 2), 1836–1840 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-01859-0

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