The study will include patients with oral cancer and healthy controls of both sexes. Subjects having any systemic diseases or other types of cancer will be excluded. All subjects will be selected from Oral Medicine Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Al Ahram Canadian University and Fayoum University. Informed consent will be obtained from all subjects enrolled in this study after explanation of the whole procedure.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
46
quantitative determination of salivary SOX7 using an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit based on the sandwich principle according to the manufacturer's protocol.
Fayoum University
Al Fayyum, Egypt
salivary expression of SOX7
Time frame: 2 months
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