Upregulation of the long non-coding RNA CASC9 as a biomarker for squamous cell carcinoma.
Madeleine SassenbergJohanna DroopWolfgang A SchulzDimo DietrichSophia Marie LoickConstanze WiekKathrin ScheckenbachNadine Therese GaisaMichèle Janine HoffmannPublished in: BMC cancer (2019)
CASC9 is a promising biomarker for HNSCC detection. While regularly overexpressed, however, this lncRNA does not seem to act as a major driver of development or progression in this tumor.