Kuan-Chou Lin

Wan Fang Hospital · Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Head and neck squamous carcinoma (HNSCC) affects more than half a million individuals and ranks the ninth leading cause of death globally each year. Many patients develop treatment resistance leading to poor clinical outcomes. The poor treatment responses are in part due to the heterogeneity of HNSCC tumor and tumor microenvironment (TME). The inte...

Despite modern advances in technology, significant challenges still plague the development of new cancer drugs and cancer care. To address these issue, we are introducing our novel platform technology- Microtube Array Membrane-Hollow Fiber Assay (MTAM-HFA) that is based on combination of the patented MTAM membrane with unique microstructures; repla...

Objectives To determine the relation between the severity of periodontitis and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) occurrence among different cancer locations and estimate the effect of dental care on ONJ prevention in cancer patients. Materials and methods This population-based cross-sectional study was conducted through the Longitudinal Health Insura...

The advanced-stage head and neck cancer (HNC) patients respond poorly to platinum-based treatments. Thus, a reliable pretreatment method for evaluating platinum treatment response would improve therapeutic efficiency and outcomes. This study describes a novel strategy to predict clinical drug responses in HNC patients by using eSelect, a lab-develo...

MAX dimerization (MXD) protein 3 (MXD3) is a member of the MXD family of basic-helix-loop-helix-leucine-zipper (bHLHZ) transcription factors that plays pivotal roles in cell cycle progression and cell proliferation. However, there is insufficient scientific evidence on the pathogenic roles of MXD3 in various cancers and whether MXD3 plays a role in...

Dental implants are currently the mainstay of dental restoration procedures. They are used to reestablish normal chewing functions for patients. Several studies have reported their high success rate, but post-op bone resorption at the implant site increases the risk of implant fracture, which is especially significant in the posterior mandibular to...

Background No evidence is currently available to estimate the outcomes of intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and surgery for patients with early oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (E‐OCSCC). Methods We recruited patients from the Taiwan Cancer Registry Database who had received a diagnosis of E‐OCSCC. Propensity score matching was perfo...

Purpose Although patients aged >70 years are subject to early oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (E-OCSCC), evidence is currently lacking regarding the probable outcomes of definitive radiotherapy (RT) compared to surgery in this population. Methods We recruited patients aged ≥70 years with a diagnosis of E-OCSCC from the Taiwan Cancer Registry D...

Importance There is currently no system to predict 90-day morality among patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) after the completion of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). Objective To validate the accuracy of a predictive scoring system for 90-day mortality among patients with locally advanced HNSCC who have...

Purpose Augmentation of the occiput is an aesthetic procedure that is gaining more popularity but is not well reported in the literature. The aim of this retrospective study on a case series of patients was to describe the use of CAD-CAM prefabricated polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) implant in aesthetic occipital augmentation. Furthermore, comparison...

Background: To estimate easily assessed preoperative factors for predicting 90-day mortality in patients with a pancreatic head adenocarcinoma (PHA) receiving a pancreaticoduodenectomy. Methods: We analyzed data from the Taiwan Cancer Registry Database of patients with a PHA who received a pancreaticoduodenectomy. Basic demographic characteristi...

Background Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a progressive scarring disease and has been considered as a premalignant condition of the oral cavity. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of OSF are still unclear. Method Here, we examined the expression of a novel long non‐coding RNA LINC00974 in OSF and investigated...

Purpose: To propose a risk classification scheme for locoregionally advanced (Stages III and IV) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA-HNSCC) by using the Wu comorbidity score (WCS) to quantify the risk of curative surgeries, including tumor resection and radical neck dissection. Methods: This study included 55,080 patients with LA-HNSCC receiv...

Background/purpose: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is common and associated with certain comorbidities. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of selected comorbidities in patients with RAUs and to compare the risks of comorbidity between the two cohorts of patients with or without RAUs based on the Taiwanese National Health...

Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been implicated in fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis; however, the exact role of EMT‐inducer Slug in the progression of precancerous oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) has not been investigated. In the current study, we showed that the expression of Slug was upregulated in OSF tissues and associated with various...

Background Few studies have evaluated the risk of oral cavity cancer (OC) in patients with recurrent oral aphthae (ROA) and dry eye syndrome (DES). This study assessed the risk of OC in patients who had received diagnoses of ROA and DES in Taiwan. Methods A population-based frequency-matched case–control study was conducted in which data were anal...

Background Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is considered a prophase symptom in patients with specific cancers. This study assessed the association between RAS and subsequent onset of cancer based on a nationwide population‐based database in Taiwan. Materials and Methods We selected study participants from the National Health Insurance Research...

Background: No large-scale, head-to-head, phase III, randomized, controlled trial with an adequate sample size has investigated the effect of concurrent low-dose (LD) or high-dose (HD) cisplatin with radiotherapy on nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). Thus, we conducted a propensity-score-matched, nationwide, population-based cohort study in Taiwan to in...

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a potentially malignant condition associated with areca nut chewing. Formerly confined to the Indian subcontinent, it is now often seen in Asian populations of the United Kingdom, USA, and other developed countries, and is therefore a serious problem for global health. What makes it more sinister is the malignant t...

We examined the overall survival rates of a national cohort to determine optimal treatments and prognostic factors for patients with metachronous second primary head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (mspHNSCCs) at different stages and sites. We analyzed data of mspHNSCC patients collected from the Taiwan Cancer Registry database. The patients were...

For locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), therapeutic decisions depend on comorbidity or age. We estimated the treatment outcomes of patients with different Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) scores and ages to determine whether aggressive treatment improves survival.Data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance and cancer...

The use of induction chemotherapy (CT) is controversial. We compared the survival of head and neck cancer patients receiving docetaxel- or platinum-based induction CT before concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) with the survival of those receiving upfront CCRT alone. Data from the National Health Insurance and cancer registry databases in Taiwan we...

Patients with head and neck cancer are treated through surgery, radiotherapy (RT), and chemotherapy (CT). Carotid artery damage and neurotoxicity were previously observed in these patients. This study estimated the dementia risk associated with different treatment modalities in a head and neck cancer population with long-term follow-up. Taiwan's Na...

FinFET technology has been adopted in the 16nm node because it provides superior lon/loff ratio, short-channel effect and local variation [1,2]. 2P-SRAM, which offers simultaneous read and write operations, is widely used for media processing because of its high operating efficiency. However, 2P-SRAM using the conventional 2P8T cell has a read-dist...

Background and purpose: Betel nut chewing is associated with oral cavity cancer in Taiwan. OC3 is an oral carcinoma cell line that was established from cells collected from a long-term betel nut chewer who does not smoke. After we found that microRNA-17-5p (miR-17-5p) is induced in OC3 cells, we used this cell line to examine the biological role(s...