Pre-operative cellular dissociation grading in biopsies is highly predictive of post-operative tumour stage and patient outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Consequently, the CDG on pre-therapeutic biopsies which is based on the sum scores also showed a highly significant impact on OS, DSS and DFS ( p < 0.001, respectively) (Table 1 , Fig. 3 ).

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