Saliva as a window into tumor immunity in oral squamous cell carcinoma: tissue concordance and translational validation
Saliva is non-invasive, repeatable, and anatomically close to oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), but proximity does not establish that a salivary biomolecule originates from the tumor. Cytokines, extracellular vesicles, coding and non-coding RNAs, an…