Oral Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kirita, Tadaaki (Editor), Omura, Ken (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Dentistry.; Medicine.; Oncology.; Otolaryngologic surgery.; Oral surgery.; Maxillofacial surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.; Head and Neck Surgery.

Oral cancer is frequently diagnosed late, when the disease has advanced with lesions that are large and deeply invasive and with metastasis to regional lymph nodes, leading to increased mortality. Moreover, late diagnosis and treatment often result in considerable morbidity of oral and maxillofacial...