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The current 5-year survival rate of OSCC patients is around 50%. There are no diagnostic tests or markers and the diagnosis is based on histopathologic samples only, which postpones the time of detection and worsens the prognosis of the patient greatly. New diagnostic methods and tools are required to improve the survival rate. This study aimed to find possible biomarkers and develop a new diagnostic method for OSCC by comparing the serum proteomic expression of tongue cancer patients and healthy controls with label-free liquid-chromatography mass spectrometry. The results showed small, but statistically significant difference in protein expression between the patients and healthy controls, as well as a clear separation between the groups based on the peptide data. In addition, no specific networks or cellular pathways were highlighted for OSCC compared to other types of cancers. These results didn’t introduce considerable advances into the diagnostics of OSCC but showed a possibility for finding further distinctive differences between the OSCC patients and healthy controls.