Saliva as a diagnostic frontier: Assessing healthcare students’ readiness for salivary biomarkers in early cancer detection
Healthcare students showed a positive attitude toward saliva-based cancer diagnostics but demonstrated notable knowledge gaps, particularly in biomarker identification and diagnostic validity. These findings support integrating salivaomics into healthcare curricula, alongside faculty development and targeted training, to improve readiness for clinical adoption."
Authors
- Saud Alqahtani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4587-0450)
- Fahad Alsultan
- Taha Alqahtani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4017-8754)
- Afaf Aldahish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5073-2088)
- Geetha Kandasamy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-7978)
- Praveen Devanandan
- Fatimah Mohamed Mahdy Hassan
- Rajalakshimi Vasudevan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-7724)
- Samar Ahmed Alqarni
- Taif Nasser Mohammed Alharrani
- Fay Abdulrahman
- Tasneem Asiry
Institutions
- St. Peter's Institute of Higher Education and Research (IN)
- King Khalid University (SA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332717
- Primary Topic
- Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00