TY - GEN
T1 - Oral cancer screening approach based on labeling exfoliated oral cells with molecularly-targeted optical contrast agents
AU - Leautaud, Veronica
AU - Horres, Charles R.
AU - Bhattar, Vijayashree S.
AU - Williams, Michelle D.
AU - Gillenwater, Ann M.
AU - Richards-Kortum, Rebecca R.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Early detection is a potential key to improving the survival rates of oral cancer patients and reducing the morbidity associated with treatment. We seek to improve upon methods of detecting of early malignancies with oral brush biopsies by using immunofluorescence-based assessment of the expression of multiple well-described markers commonly overexpressed in oral cancers, such as Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) and Cytokeratin 8 (CK8). Furthermore, since abnormal cells are often scarce in brush biopsy samples, we seek to use magnetic microparticles targeted to these markers as a means of enriching the concentration of abnormal cells. Finally, we plan to conduct a small pilot study using these methods with brush biopsies from patients of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Head and Neck Clinic.
AB - Early detection is a potential key to improving the survival rates of oral cancer patients and reducing the morbidity associated with treatment. We seek to improve upon methods of detecting of early malignancies with oral brush biopsies by using immunofluorescence-based assessment of the expression of multiple well-described markers commonly overexpressed in oral cancers, such as Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) and Cytokeratin 8 (CK8). Furthermore, since abnormal cells are often scarce in brush biopsy samples, we seek to use magnetic microparticles targeted to these markers as a means of enriching the concentration of abnormal cells. Finally, we plan to conduct a small pilot study using these methods with brush biopsies from patients of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Head and Neck Clinic.
KW - Molecular markers
KW - optical contrast agents
KW - oral cancer
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U2 - 10.1117/12.887755
DO - 10.1117/12.887755
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79953741633
SN - 9780819484208
T3 - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
BT - Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics VII
T2 - Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics VII
Y2 - 22 January 2011 through 24 January 2011
ER -