Development of Oral Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Al Moustafa, Ala-Eddin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Dentistry.; Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.

This book aims to provide the reader with a complete understanding of the development of oral cancer by explaining the role of a wide variety of implicated risk factors and identifying their gene targets and key regulators. Some of the discussed risk factors are well known, including smoking, alcoho...

Table of Contents:

• Human oral cancer (epidemiology and characteristic
• Novel Developments in the Molecular Genetic basis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC)?
• Oral Cancer: After the Completion of the Human Genome Project
• Smoking and Oral Cancer
• Alcohol and Oral Cancer
• High-risk human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus presence and crosstalk in human oral carcinogenesis
• Oral cancer – Epidemiology and infections (bacterial & fungal) global incidence
• Oral Cancer and Chewing Habits
• Role of Qat Chewing and Mate consumption in human oral carcinogenesis
• Photodynamic Diagnosis and Therapy for Oral: Cancers Detection and Treatment
• Role of Nutrition in Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers: from Etiology to Prevention
• Prevention of Oral cancer.