In vivo Native Fluorescence spectroscopic characterization of oral tissue and saliva of same group of normal, and patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma conditions were studied at 350 nm excitation. The measured fluorescence emission spectra exhibit broad emission with peaks due to NADH, FAD and Porphyrin. To resolve the emission from individual fluorophores, the measured fluorescence spectra were subjected to spectral deconvolution. Further, the variations in relative distribution, peak shifts and spectral broadening were analyzed with respect to the fluorophores, NADH, FAD, and porphyrin. The changes in the above photophysical characteristics of various native fluorophores between normal and cancer group in both tissue and saliva confirms that there is a significant molecular level changes during the transformation of normal into cancer. The extracted spectral signatures of tissues and saliva were also subjected to linear discriminant analysis and the diagnostic accuracy between tissue and saliva were compared.
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in female worldwide; the present method for diagnosis is the biopsy, Pap smear, colposcopy etc. To overcome the drawbacks of diagnosis an alternative technique is required, optical spectroscopy is a new technique where the discrimination of normal and cancer subjects provides valuable potential information in the diagnostic oncology at an early stage. Raman peaks in the spectra suggest interesting differences in various bio molecules. In this regard, non invasive optical detection of cervical cancer using urine samples by Raman Spectroscopy combined with LDA diagnostic algorithm yields an accuracy of 100% for original and cross validated group respectively. As the results were appreciable it is necessary to carry out the analysis for more number of samples to explore the facts hidden at different stages during the development of cervical cancer.
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