Evidence mapPaperPMID 39766175Full record

ReviewCancers2024

Saliva in Balancing Oral and Systemic Health, Oral Cancer, and Beyond: A Narrative Review.

Kohei Okuyama, Souichi Yanamoto

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Review
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. From gut to mouth: salivary signatures of carcinogenic microbiota.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
    Review
  12. BeyondMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Review
  19. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kohei OkuyamaDepartment of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1881 East Rd, Houston, TX 77054, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5616-902X
Souichi YanamotoDepartment of Oral Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2372-8347

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Saliva plays a multifaceted role in oral health and systemic well-being. It supports digestion, protects oral tissues, maintains a healthy oral microbiome, and facilitates wound healing. Additionally, saliva serves as a diagnostic tool that reflects systemic health and disease/therapeutic states. Furthermore, although saliva shows a protective effect against oral cancer development, once tumor formation occurs, it may be involved in tumor progression and metastasis via exosomes and microRNAs. This review discusses the essential role of saliva; its relationship with the development, progression, and metastasis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); liquid biopsy tools for early diagnosis and monitoring of HNSCC; and the potential of exosomes as therapeutic agents.

Indexed as

diagnosismetastasismicroRNAoral squamous cell carcinomasaliva

Identifiers

PMID39766175
PMCPMC11674559

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.