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Predicting Oral Cancer From Precursor Lesions: Assessing Current Methods and Future Directions.

JCO precision oncology · Troka ME, Gates JC · 2026-09-01

Researchers reviewed existing tools for predicting whether oral potentially malignant disorders will progress to cancer, finding that current methods examine only single biological factors and lack balanced predictive accuracy; they conclude that integrating multiple biological data sources is needed for better risk assessment.

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