Editorial, Dent Health Curr Res Vol: 1 Issue: 1
Can Challenges of Oral Cancer Diagnosis be Resolved?
| Muy-Teck Teh* | |
| Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Institute of Dentistry, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, England, UK | |
| Corresponding author: Dr. Muy-Teck Teh, BSc PhD Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, The Blizard Building, 4, Newark Street, London E1 2AT, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 20 7882 7140; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7882 7137 E-mail: m.t.teh@qmul.ac.uk |
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| Received: September 16, 2015 Accepted: September 18, 2015 Published: September 25, 2015 | |
| Citation: Teh MT (2015) Can Challenges of Oral Cancer Diagnosis be Resolved? Dent Health Curr Res 1:1. doi:10.4172/2470-0886.1000e103 |
Abstract
Can Challenges of Oral Cancer Diagnosis be Resolved?
Early oral cancer detection and accurate diagnosis remain the most challenging aspects of oral oncology. Heterogeneity in oral cancer (mostly squamous cell carcinoma) renders accurate classification problematic, which in turn impacts on treatment decision and patient outcome. Early oral cancer detection coupled with appropriate treatment can significantly improve patient outcome, reduce mortality and alleviate public healthcare costs. Clinical diagnosis of early potentially malignant oral lesion is one of the first challenges of dental practitioners when encountering an oral lesion. Whilst most oral lesions are clinically well characterized and easy to identify, the main problem is to be able to identify which lesions are potentially malignant.
