Essentials of Oral Cancer

by AK Dewan, Swarupa Mitra, Rajan Arora, Ullas Batra

The objective of this book is to introduce the essentials of oral cancer. Oral cancer is the most common form of head and neck cancer. Oral cancer affects your lips and the first parts of your tongue, mouth roof and floor. The knowledge about head and neck cancers has undergone exponential growth over the last three decades. Although oral cancer is the leading cancer amongst all head and neck cancers, still clinicians keep struggling to collect information which will help them in decision-making in oral cancer management. This book consists of 36 chapters that focus on surgical anatomy of oral cavity, evaluation and staging of oral cancer, principles of oral cancer treatment, jaw tumors, nutrition in oral cancer, carcinoma of lower alveolus, upper alveolus and palate, neck dissections in oral cancer, reconstructions of oral mucosal defects, chemotherapy in oral cavity cancer, dental management in oral cancer patients, cancer of the oral cavity, etc. At the end of each chapter, author provides the key points of relevant chapters to easily understand. This book provides resource not only for the trainees but also for established practitioners in otolaryngology, maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, and clinical oncology.

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