Oral cancer is a serious and rapidly growing life threatening issue in many parts of the world. Oral and oropharyngeal cancer grouped together, forms the sixth most common cancer in the world.[1] It constitutes approximately 5% of all cancers globally, with 60,000 new cases of oral cancer is reported every year in India.[2] Of the 0.3 million annual cancer related deaths in India, nearly 33% ar...

Oral cancer is mostly preventable. As the mouth is easily accessible for self or clinical examination early diagnosis of the malignancy is possible, and it greatly increases survival rates.3 The prognosis of oral cancer is poor with lowest survival rates of <50%, within a 5-year period. In spite of advances in the diagnosis and treatment of oral cancer, the proportion of oral cancer cases diagn...

oral glutamine supplementation is highly effective in preventing and delaying radiation-induced esophagitis, one of the most common discomforting side effects of radiation to the thoracic area among lung cancer patients. according to the literature, lung cancer is the leading cause of death among all cancers with the highest incidence worldwide. this paper aims to emphasize the importance of or...

Previous reports revealed that a significant decrease of miR-34a in oral cancer. But the role of miR-34a in oral cancer needs further research. In the present study, we will investigate the effect of miR-34a on oral cancer cell phenotypes. First, it was verified that miR-34a expression was lower in oral cancer tissues compared with their normal controls, so did the oral cancer cells. Next, it w...

Persisting and chronic oral complications of cancer therapy are common. Oral complications in cancer survivors are underreported but impact oral function and quality of life. Prevention and management of oral complications in cancer survivors requires interdisciplinary care. The purpose of this article is to review the common oral complications in cancer survivors.

Cancer-associated fibroblasts are amongst the key tumor microenvironment components that determine invasion, progression, and resistance to cancer therapeutics. Histologically normal mucosa adjacent oral squamous cell carcinoma has been shown harbor cancer-associated which aid in loco-regional recurrence of lesion. Read more at JCTRes.com

Oral cancer is the sixth most common cancer among Indian males and the third most common cancer among Indian females. Oral cancer is largely preventable if detected at an early stage. Early diagnosis of the malignancy greatly increase survival rates as the mouth is easily accessible for self or clinical examination. Lack of awareness among the health care providers is the most significant facto...

We conducted a questionnaire survey among 602 subjects in order to analyze the awareness and knowledge on oral cancer among residents of the city of Valongo in Portugal. The cancer that most subjects were aware of was breast cancer (99%). Oral cancer was the least mentioned cancer (68.6%). There was awareness of the relationship between oral cancer and smoking among 89.5% subjects, but less of ...