Journal Reviews

A mouth-rinse test that can screen for oral cancer?

1 May 2018 | | DNA methylation biomarker, PAX1, ZNF582, mouth rinse, oral cancer

This paper presents a promising screening tool for oral cancer – using a simple chlorhexidine mouth-rinse. The hypermethylated ZNF582 and PAX1 markers were chosen based on previous studies using oral scraping methods of collection and have been shown to be...