Abstract
Head and neck cancer (HNC) remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide due to tumor diagnosis at a late stage, loco-regional aggression, and distant metastases. A standardized diagnostic procedure for HNC is a tissue biopsy that cannot faithfully portray the in-depth tumor dynamics. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop simple, accurate, and non-invasive methods for cancer detection and follow-up. A saliva-based liquid biopsy allows convenient, non-invasive, and painless collection of high volumes of this biofluid, with the possibility of repetitive sampling, all enabling real-time monitoring of the disease. No approved clinical test for HNC has yet been established. However, epigenetic changes in saliva circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) have the potential for a wide range of clinical applications. Therefore, the aim of this review is to present an overview of cfDNA-based methylation patterns in saliva for early detection of HNC, with particular attention to circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). Due to advancements in isolation and detection technologies, as well as next- and third-generation sequencing, recent data suggest that salivary biomarkers may be successfully applied for early detection of HNC in the future, but large prospective clinical trials are still warranted.
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Ministry of Health Czech Republic
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