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Classification Information

Regulatory Mechanism		Biological Function		Clinical Application
TF		Immune		Survival
Enhancer		Apoptosis		Drug
Variant		Cell Growth		Circulating
MiRNA		EMT		Metastasis
Methylation		Coding Ability		Recurrence

Cancer&Entry Information

Cancer Name	head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
ICD-0-3	C76.0
Methods	qPCR, other
Sample	HNSCC tissues and cell line
Expression Pattern	down-regulated
Function Description	CASC9 expression discriminated tumors from normal tissues with even higher specificity than HOTAIR, a lncRNA previously suggested as an HNSCC biomarker. Specificity of HNSCC detection by CASC9 was further improved by combination with HOTAIR. Analysis of TCGA pan-cancer data revealed significant overexpression of CASC9 across different other entities including bladder, liver, lung and stomach cancers and especially in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung. By RT-qPCR analysis we furthermore detected stronger CASC9 overexpression in pure SCC of the urinary bladder and mixed urothelial carcinoma with squamous differentiation than in pure urothelial carcinomas. Thus, CASC9 might represent a general diagnostic biomarker and particularly for SCCs. Unexpectedly, up- or downregulation of CASC9 expression in HNSCC cell lines with low or high CASC9 expression, respectively, did not result in significant changes of cell viability, clonogenicity, migration or chemosensitivity.
Pubmed ID	31412811
Year	2019
Title	Upregulation of the Long Non-Coding RNA CASC9 as a Biomarker for Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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