Original scientific paper
Examining the Presence of ABO(H) Antigens of Blood Types in the Saliva of Patients with Oral Cancer
Robert Cerović
Mirna Juretić
Sanja Balen
Margita Belušić
Linda Caser
Mate Rogić
Abstract
Number of researches dealing with the influence of the ABO blood group antigens on the development of the oral cancer
have hypothesized that people who do not secrete these substances in the saliva are more prone to suffer from this disease.
The objective of this research is to examine this hypothesis. In total 114 subjects were examined, half of which suffered
from oral cancer, while the other half was the healthy control group. All examinees were subjected to clinical examinations
and the experimental group to pathohistological examination. An analysis of the secretor status was carried out using
the Wiener agglutination test. The experimental group consisted of 78,95% of secretors, while the control group consisted
of 82,46% of secretors. This difference is not statistically significant. The starting hypothesis that non-secretors are
more prone to the development of oral cancer was not confirmed.
Keywords
secretor status; ABO antigens; oral cancer
Hrčak ID:
27177
URI
Publication date:
7.7.2008.
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