Salivary Proteomics : A Promising Technology in Oral Oncology : A Brief Review (original) (raw)

Early stage detection of cancer is the key to provide a better outcome for therapeutic intervention. Most routine screening and diagnosis tools for oral cancer lack sufficient sensitivity and specificity and sometimes they are invasive. Proteomic technologies hold recently great promise in the search of new clinical biomarkers for the early detection and diagnosis of cancer. Proteomic study of human body fluid (saliva) holds promise as a non-invasive method to identify biomarkers for human oral cancer. This review article provides a brief overview of the importance of salivary proteome in early detection of oral oncology.