[The role of selected cytokines in the serum of patients with oral cancer as a cancer marker. preliminary report].
Generally, oral squamous cell carcinoma is characterized by a high degree of local invasion and high frequency of cervical lymph node metastases. The invasion and metastasis process consists of many interconnected host and tumor relationships. The prognosis depends on their early diagnosis and appropriate treatment, which is why it is important to capture the initial symptoms of cancer. The advancement of the cancer process at the moment of reporting the patient to treatment in most cases does not give a chance to obtain satisfactory results, despite the introduction of modern methods and techniques to fight the disease. The severity of symptoms in the early stage of the disease, significant invasiveness and the ability to metastasis to regional lymph nodes prompts for the search for sensitive markers that could be used in screening patients in groups with a high risk of OSCC incidence.