Abstract
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common type of head and neck cancer and has a propensity for lymph node metastases, which decreases the 5-year survival rate of patients by up to 50%. The diagnosis of this carcinoma is made through tissue biopsy, a laborious, expensive, invasive method that does not allow the detection of lymph node metastasis in its initial stage. Thus, th…