Oral Cancer: 1. The Genetic Basis of the Disease

From Volume 27, Issue 5, June 2000 | Pages 242-248

Authors

Maxine Partridge

PhD, FDS RCS

Consultant, Maxillofacial Unit/Oncology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London

Articles by Maxine Partridge

Abstract

This article is in two parts. The first describes recent advances in our understanding of the biology of oral cancer and the potential to utilize this new information to make better predictions about outcome and devise new treatments. The second part describes the clinical presentation and the development of a new generation of ultra-sensitive diagnostics to identify occult tumour and precancer, to investigate why cancer may recur.

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