Early detection of oral cancer : who is responsible?

Van Zyl, Andre W.; Van Heerden, Willem Francois Petrus

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Early detection of oral cancer : who is responsible?

Van Zyl, Andre W.; Van Heerden, Willem Francois Petrus

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59238

Date: 2012-05

Abstract:

Oral squamous carcinoma or oral cancer (OC), as it is generally known, has an average five-year survival rate of less than 50%. This has not changed much in 50 years. The survival rate can be more than 90% with early diagnosis, but as low as 20%, if the lesion is diagnosed late.1,2 Early detection of oral cancer is therefore essential to improve the otherwise dismal five-year survival rate.

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