Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Tongue in Young Non-Smokers Is Genomically Similar to Tumors in Older Smokers
Pickering CR, Zhang J, Neskey DM, Zhao M, Jasser SA, Wang J, Ward A, Tsai CJ, Alves M, Zhou JH, Drummond J, El-Naggar AK, Gibbs R, Weinstein JN, Wheeler DA, Wang J, Frederick MJ, Myers JN. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Tongue in Young Non-Smokers Is Genomically Similar to Tumors in Older Smokers. Clinical Cancer Research 2014, 20: 3842-3848. PMID: 24874835, PMCID: PMC4102633, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-14-0565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSquamous cell carcinomaOlder patientsOral tongueYounger patientsCell carcinomaWhole-exome sequencingOlder smokersSimilar patientsTongue tumorsNon smokersIncreasing incidenceEpidemiologic studiesIndependent cohortPatientsSCCOTSmokingTumorsCohortAlteration frequencyGenomic effectsTCGA dataCopy number analysisGene-specific mutationsOlder cohortTypes of mutations