Oral Cancer (Hardcover)

This text provides oncologists and surgeons with a comprehensive reference to neoplastic disease in the oral cavity. It encompasses pathology and biology, clinical assessment and management, outcomes and follow-up. The contributors review global epiemiology and risk factors, aetiology and pathology of the disease, mechanisms of spread and the implications for therapy. Expert guidance is given on work-up and staging, differential diagnoses and choice of treatment including radiation and chemotherapy, surgery and palliative care. The work also details appropriate techniques in reconstructive surgery, including the latest developments in osseointegrated facial prostheses and in postoperative rehabilitation and speech therapy. The book is illustrated with over 600 colour clinical photographs and line diagrams.