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Published on: January 5, 2017
Lateralization of squamous cell carcinomas in the head-neck region
Senol Dane1, Murat Karaşen, Onder Sahin
1Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
Abstract:
Earlier studies have shown the lateralization of several immune disorders, including herpes zoster infection and breast cancer. We investigated whether there is lateralization of squamous cell carcinomas in the head-neck region and a relation of handedness with this cancer. Analysis showed right-sided lateralization of head-heck cancers in right-handed patients and vice versa in left-handed ones and a higher rate of left-handedness in patients with squamous cell cancer. Associations among left-handedness, squamous cell carcinoma, and its lateralization may result from a genetic togetherness.
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