Muthusamy, Mudiyayirakkani
Ramani, Pratibha
Arumugam, Paramasivam
Rudrapathy, Parthiban
Kangusamy, Boopathi
Veeraraghavan, Vishnu Priya
Jayaraman, Selvaraj
Kannan, Balachander
Pandi, Anitha
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02, HRD/Head-NCS-2019-02)
Article History
Received: 22 July 2024
Accepted: 30 December 2024
First Online: 13 January 2025
Declarations
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: The institutional ethical committee approval was obtained from Saveetha Dental College and hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (IHEC Ref. No: IHEC/SDC/OPATH-1601/21/189) and Malabar Cancer Centre, Thalassery, Kerala (No: 1617/IRB-IEC/13/MCC/16–5-2023/3, CDSCO Reg. No: ECR/780/Inst./KL/2015/RR-21). All the procedures involving the human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution. Informed consent in regional language (Tamil or Malayalam) or English was received from all the patients included in the study. After receiving the informed consent from the patients, the samples were collected.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.