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Oral cancer screening

Introduction

Overview

Overview

There is insufficient evidence to recommend routine screening for oral cancer.

Screening

Screening

  • There is insufficient evidence to recommend routine screening for oral cancer.[1]
  • There is no country that has any routine screening program for oral cancer.
  • There is insufficient evidence to support any screening modality that might decrease mortality in oral cancer.
References

References

  1. ↑ Speight, Paul M.; Epstein, Joel; Kujan, Omar; Lingen, Mark W.; Nagao, Toru; Ranganathan, Kannan; Vargas, Pablo (2017). “Screening for oral cancer—a perspective from the Global Oral Cancer Forum”. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology. 123 (6): 680–687. doi:10.1016/j.oooo.2016.08.021. ISSN 2212-4403.

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