Dear colleagues. 
I am contacting you for a possible collaboration with your team in an international multicenter study on oral cancer. We are planning to perform the analysis of several factors in order to define the possible evolution of oral cancer. We are enrolling several units, from Italy, US, UK, Sudan, Ecuador, India etc….  To data 110 institutions accepted.

The first step of the project is to collect data of OSCC cases from our files.  
In this way, I hope that we can write several papers only using all those data from different countries… considering differences between countries, races, ages…. My research group will perform statistical analysis and write the draft, but all the researchers involved in the collection of data will be authors of those papers.

Then, ended the study about the cases found in our files, we could plan new activities using eventually available specimens (Paraffin embedded samples, frozen samples, saliva, blood etc) from OSCC patients, naturally according to different ethic committees of various countries.

I am sending you the excel for the data collection about your OSCC cases. Naturally for older cases it is not possible to find all the data, however they are also important for the collection. How many cases can do you find in your files?
 
Let me know if it is possible for you to participate to this study or if you do not agree.

Sincerely yours

Prof. Lorenzo Lo Muzio, MD, DMD, PhD 

Rettore dell’Università di Foggia
Presidente del CURC (Comitato Universitario Regionale di Coordinamento delle Università Pugliesi)
Componente del Comitato Scientifico Nazionale della LILT (Lega Italiana Lotta ai Tumori)
Direttore del C.I.N.B.O. (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Bio-Oncologia)
Presidente del Centro servizi di ricerca applicata e alta formazione odontostomatologica – Polo di Odontoiatria

Università degli Studi di Foggia
ITALY

Address:

Prof. Lorenzo Lo Muzio
Clinica Odontoiatrica
Via Rovelli – 71122 Foggia – Italy
Telefono direzione: 0039 0881 588090, segreteria 0881 588082, fax 0881 588081
lomuziol@tin.it or llomuzio@tin.it or lorenzo.lomuzio@unifg.it