Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a major world health problem with over 400,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Despite advances in surgery and chemo-radiotherapy, the 5 year survival
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a lethal disease and early death usually occurs as a result of local invasion and regional lymph node metastases. We used microarrays to identify down or upregul
*Hazard ratio of each gene from Cox regression analysis adjusting for age, sex, tumor stage, and high-risk HPV status. **Cox model incorporating 20 probe sets, used for calculating a risk score.