Project description:To investigate the differences of transcriptional activities between oropharyngeal squamous cell caricnoma and small cell carcinoma, we performed a transcriptomic analysis using high throoughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
Project description:The incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is increasing and effective treatment for targeting the subset of patients at high risk for recurrence remains a significant clinical challenge. In this study, pre-treatment tumour biopsies were used for proteomic analysis by data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) to identify protein and peptide biomarker signatures able to stratify patients at low, intermediate, or high-risk of recurrence. For further details, refer to the publication that accompanies this data deposition.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of normal and primary oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma tissue samples, some infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV). The Illumina Infinium 27k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27,000 CpGs in tissue samples. Samples included 46 oropharyngeal SCC primary tumors and 46 normal adjacent mucosal samples. For each tumor sample, HPV status (positivity based on both DNA and E6/E7 RNA) and p16 immunohistochemistry status is included. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 46 primary tumors and 46 matched adjacent normal samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 27k Human Methylation Beadchip.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of normal and primary oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma tissue samples, some infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV). The Illumina Infinium 27k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27,000 CpGs in tissue samples. Samples included 46 oropharyngeal SCC primary tumors and 46 normal adjacent mucosal samples. For each tumor sample, HPV status (positivity based on both DNA and E6/E7 RNA) and p16 immunohistochemistry status is included.
Project description:The global rise of HPV(+) oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) has generated considerable interest underlying its etiology and management. Despite an overall decline in head and neck malignancies, the incidence in OPSCC has by contrast sharply risen, with HPV(+) subtypes now comprising 80% of all OPSCC.1,2 Relative to HPV(-) OPSCC, HPV(+) patients are more responsive to chemoradiation and harbor a 52% risk-of-death reduction.3 Despite this distinct outcome, treatment regimens remain the same for all OPSCC subtypes (smoking-driven and virus-driven), rather than an adaptive approach to what most consider distinct diseases. The short-term effects (e.g., mucositis, odynophagia) and long-term toxicities (e.g., xerostomia, dysphagia, ototoxicity) from treatment substantially affect quality of life, and rival the impact of the cancer itself. Recently published as well as ongoing trials are actively examining deintensification approaches2,4-9, with the goal of diminishing treatment sequelae for HPV(+) subtypes. While deintensification may decrease chemoradiation-related toxicities, it nonetheless may also undertreat a meaningful percentage of HPV(+) patients who may then recur. In examining national trials, 19% of HPV(+) patients had disease progression after therapy, with a two-year survival rate of 60%.10 Current methods to ascertain HPV status involve p16 staining. However, on comparison with gold standard E6/E7 expression by qPCR, p16 harbored a 15% false positivity rate11, suggesting limited utility as a sole biomarker for deintensification. Improved molecular stratification would greatly enhance the clinician’s ability to precisely tailor treatment while minimizing the risk of jeopardizing outcomes. One approach encompasses in-depth proteomic profiling of HPV(+) OPSCC to reveal distinct protein expression profiles and delineate clinically relevant upstream pathways. In turn, these proteomic differences may distinguish higher-risk disease (cases predisposed to recurrence that may benefit from treatment intensification) from lower-risk phenotypes (cases whose treatment response is sufficiently robust to warrant deintensification). Here, two HPV(+) OPSCC cohorts stratified by treatment response are compared via a hybrid data dependent acquisition/data independent acquisition (DDA/DIA) approach via mass spectrometry. We focused on detection of low-abundance proteins to highlight proteomic signatures that can be potentially exploited for treatment stratification.
Project description:Increased incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is mainly related to Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection. As OPSCCs are often diagnosed at an advanced stage, mortality and morbidity remain high. There are no diagnostic biomarkers for early stage detection of OPSCC. Serum from 25 patients with stage I-II OPSCC and 12 disease- individuals were studied with quantitative label-free proteomics using ultra-definition MSE. Statistical analyses were performed to identify proteins most reliably distinguishing early stage OPSCCs from controls. P16 was used as a surrogate marker for HPV. P16-positive and -negative tumours were also analysed separately. With two or more unique proteins per identification, 176 proteins were quantified. A clear separation between patients with early-stage tumours and controls was seen in principal component analysis. Latent structures discriminant analysis identified 96 proteins most reliably differentiating OPSCC patients from controls, with 13 upregulated and 83 downregulated in study cases. The set of proteins was studied further with network, pathway and protein-protein interaction analyses, and found to participate in e.g. lipid metabolism. We identified patients with early stage OPSCC from controls based on their serum proteome, and suggest a protein set for further evaluation as a diagnostic biomarker panel for OPSCC.
Project description:DNA methylation analysis in oropharyngeal squamous carcinoma (OPSCC) samples and oropharyngeal non-cancerous mucosa samples. Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across 485,577 CpG sites. Total samples included 89 OPSCC samples and 5 non-cancerous mucosa samples.