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Authors
Pandey, Jyoti
Malik, Md. Zubbair
Shyanti, Ritis K.
Parashar, Palak
Kujur, Praveen K.
Mishra, Deepali
Tailor, Dhanir
Lee, Jee Min
Kataria, Tejinder
Gupta, Deepak
Verma, Hitesh
Yadav, Anshu
Kateriya, Suneel
Malhotra, Sanjay V.
Tandon, Vibha
Chaturvedi, Rupesh
Singh, Rana P.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (VI-D&P/546/2016-17/TDT (C))
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF/JC-131/2019)
Indian Council of Medical Research (6/11/23/dr/icmr)
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Article History
Received: 20 April 2025
Accepted: 15 July 2025
First Online: 12 December 2025
Declarations
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: All animal experiments adhered to institutional protocols and were conducted within the specific pathogen-free facility CLAR at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, following an approved Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) (IAEC Code no. 05/2017). Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) tumor samples were collected from Indian patients at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, following IRB approval (No. 2017 − 123) and from Medanta Hospital, Gurugram, India, following IRB approval (No. MICR-1013/2019). Certified pathologists interpreted the histology of the specimens, and tumor staging was determined according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging manual, 7th edition.
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: No disclosures were reported.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
