Untargeted salivary metabolomics for early prediction of chemotherapy-induced oral toxicities in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.
Researchers used salivary metabolomics to identify chemical signatures in 60 oral cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, finding that three metabolites (ceramide, lysophosphatidylcholine, and glutathione) could predict severe oral toxicities with high accuracy.
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