Inclusion of new biomarkers to improve the personalized treatment approach for HPV-positive and -negative oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) patients is urgently needed. Emerging evidences suggest that mutations in epigenetic regulators, as well as epigenetic changes, deeply influence the biology of OPSCC, thus representing attractive targets for the definition of novel molecular markers for this malignancy. Based on these considerations, our project aims to retrospectively identify a new mutational and epigenetic signature to identify OPSCC patients at high risk of early relapse, and to set up a new multicenter prospective study in order to validate it
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
267
Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (CRO), IRCCS
Aviano, Italy
RECRUITINGOspedale San Martino di Belluno - ULSS 1 Dolomiti
Belluno, Italy
RECRUITINGOspedale dell'Angelo - Mestre - Ulss 3 Serenissima
Mestre, Italy
RECRUITINGOspedale Santa Maria degli Angeli - ASFO
Pordenone, Italy
RECRUITINGOspedale di Treviso - ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana
Treviso, Italy
RECRUITINGrisk of recurrence
risk of recurrence in patients with a negative prognostic epigenetic signature compared to patients with a positive one
Time frame: 18 months
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