Expression pattern of heat shock protein 90 in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma in northern Taiwan

Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), which is expressed in cancer cells, profoundly affects progression, invasion, and metastasis. However, to our knowledge, in East Asia, the correlation between the expression of HSP90 and clinicopathological variables has seldom been discussed. We therefore investigated this and its prognostic value in 36 patients newly diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in northern Taiwan. Samples of tumour and normal samples from the patients were compared immunohistochemically.

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