Leveraging technology-driven strategies to untangle omics big data: circumventing roadblocks in clinical facets of oral cancer

Oral cancer is one of the 19most rapidly progressing cancers associated with significant mortality, owing to its extreme degree of invasiveness and aggressive inclination. The early occurrences of this cancer can be clinically deceiving leading to a poor overall survival rate. The primary concerns f...

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Published in:	Frontiers in oncology Vol. 13; p. 1183766
Main Authors:	Satish, Kshreeraja S, Saravanan, Kamatchi Sundara, Augustine, Dominic, Saraswathy, Ganesan Rajalekshmi, V, Sowmya S, Khan, Samar Saeed, H, Vanishri C, Chakraborty, Shreshtha, Dsouza, Prizvan Lawrence, N, Kavya H, Halawani, Ibrahim F, Alzahrani, Fuad M, Alzahrani, Khalid J, Patil, Shankargouda
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 03-01-2024
Subjects:	diagnosis machine learning omics Oncology oral cancer prognosis therapy diagnosis omics machine learning prognosis therapy oral cancer
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Summary:	Oral cancer is one of the 19most rapidly progressing cancers associated with significant mortality, owing to its extreme degree of invasiveness and aggressive inclination. The early occurrences of this cancer can be clinically deceiving leading to a poor overall survival rate. The primary concerns from a clinical perspective include delayed diagnosis, rapid disease progression, resistance to various chemotherapeutic regimens, and aggressive metastasis, which collectively pose a substantial threat to prognosis. Conventional clinical practices observed since antiquity no longer offer the best possible options to circumvent these roadblocks. The world of current cancer research has been revolutionized with the advent of state-of-the-art technology-driven strategies that offer a ray of hope in confronting said challenges by highlighting the crucial underlying molecular mechanisms and drivers. In recent years, bioinformatics and Machine Learning (ML) techniques have enhanced the possibility of early detection, evaluation of prognosis, and individualization of therapy. This review elaborates on the application of the aforesaid techniques in unraveling potential hints from omics big data to address the complexities existing in various clinical facets of oral cancer. The first section demonstrates the utilization of omics data and ML to disentangle the impediments related to diagnosis. This includes the application of technology-based strategies to optimize early detection, classification, and staging via uncovering biomarkers and molecular signatures. Furthermore, breakthrough concepts such as salivaomics-driven non-invasive biomarker discovery and omics-complemented surgical interventions are articulated in detail. In the following part, the identification of novel disease-specific targets alongside potential therapeutic agents to confront oral cancer via omics-based methodologies is presented. Additionally, a special emphasis is placed on drug resistance, precision medicine, and drug repurposing. In the final section, we discuss the research approaches oriented toward unveiling the prognostic biomarkers and constructing prediction models to capture the metastatic potential of the tumors. Overall, we intend to provide a bird's eye view of the various omics, bioinformatics, and ML approaches currently being used in oral cancer research through relevant case studies.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 Edited by: Guopei Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Reviewed by: Debin Sun, GeneCast Biotechnology Co., Ltd., China Ya-Qian Han, Central South University, China These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship
ISSN:	2234-943X 2234-943X
DOI:	10.3389/fonc.2023.1183766