Oral Cancer. Symptoms, Management and Risk Factors

Description

This book is a comprehensive display of the current multimodality management of oral cancer. It spans the entire discipline of oral oncology and provides a concise and current management of oral cancer-one of the most important head and neck cancers in the world. This classic reference delivers top to bottom coverage of oral cancer from epidemiology, molecular biology, preventive medicine, to the cutting edge of current treatment such as radiation therapy, ablative surgery, photodynamic therapy and reconstruction, as well as the management of potential complications.

Editors: Sheng-Po Hao (Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Comprehensive Oral Cancer Center, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Medical School, Fu-Jen University, Taiwan)

Contents

Chapter 1 - Epidemiology of Oral Cancer in Taiwan and its Policy Implications: An Urgent Call for Attention to the International Community to Offer Assistance (pp. 1-20)
Authors / Editors: (Chi Pang Wen, Po Jung Lu and Min Kuang Tsai, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan)

Chapter 2 - Gene Polymorphisms on the Susceptibility of Environmental Factors to Carcinogenesis and the Development of Oral Cancer (pp. 21-40)
Authors / Editors: (Chin-Chuan Su, Mu-Kuan Chen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan)

Chapter 3 - Epigenetic Prognostic Biomarkers in Oral Cavity Cancer: From Basic to Clinical Utility (pp. 41-52)
Authors / Editors: (Ku-Hao Fang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan)

Chapter 4 - Chemopreventive Agents Against Experimental Oral Carcinogenesis (pp. 53-64)
Authors / Editors: (Carolina Foot Gomes de Moura, Gustavo Protasio Pacheco de Jesus, Juliana Noguti, Celina T.F. Oshima, Daniel A. Ribeiro, Departments of Pathology and Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, SP, Brazil)

Chapter 5 - An Emerging Risk Factor of Oral Cancer: The Biological and Clinical Impact of Tumor Satellites (pp. 65-76)
Authors / Editors: (Tsung-Lin Yang, Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan)

Chapter 6 - A Literature Analysis of the Prognostic Factors for Oral Cancer Patients (pp. 77-106)
Authors / Editors: (Shih-An Liu, Department of Otolaryngology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan)

Chapter 7 - Endoscopy with Narrow-Band Imaging System in Evaluating Oral Leukoplakia (pp. 107-118)
Authors / Editors: (Shih-Wei Yang, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung; School of Medicine, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan)

Chapter 8 - Imaging Diagnosis of Mandible in Oral Cancers (pp. 119-134)
Authors / Editors: (Yao-Liang Chen, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung and Lin-Kou Medical Center, Taiwan)

Chapter 9 - Clinical Application of FDG PET, PET/CT and PET/MRI in Oral Cancer (pp. 135-150)
Authors / Editors: (Yen-Kung Chen, Chia-Lu Yeh, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan)

Chapter 10 - The Classification and Nomenclature System for Neck Dissection: A Systemic and Simple System Proposed by The Japan Neck Dissection Study Group (pp. 151-164)
Authors / Editors: (Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Masahisa Saikawa, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, Japan, and others)

Chapter 11 - Assessment and Prediction of Cervical Metastases of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity (pp. 165-186)
Authors / Editors: (Carlos Martínez-Gimeno, Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Spain)

Chapter 12 - Surgery of the Mandible (pp. 187-214)
Authors / Editors: (Sheng-Po Hao, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Comprehensive Oral Cancer Center, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Medical School, Fu-Jen University, Taiwan)

Chapter 13 - Systemic and Topical 5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy for Oral Precancers and Cancers (pp. 215-232)
Authors / Editors: (Hsin-Ming Chen, Chuan-Hang Yu, Hung-Pin Lin, Shih-Jung Cheng, Chun-Pin Chiang, Graduate Institute of Oral Biology, Graduate Institute of Clinical Dentistry, School of Dentistry, and Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

Chapter 14 - Microsurgical Reconstruction for Defects of the Oral Cavity (pp. 233-252)
Authors / Editors: (Leila Kolios, Jung-Ju Huang, Ming-Huei Cheng, Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Care Unit, University of Heidelberg, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Germany, and others)

Chapter 15 - Brachytherapy for Oral Cancer (pp. 253-268)
Authors / Editors: (Teruhisa Unetsubo, Jun-ichi Asaumi, Hidenobu Matsuzaki, Yoshinobu Yanagi, Miki Hisatomi, Hironobu Konouchi, Kuniaki Katsui, Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Naoya Kakimoto, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and Department of Radiology, Okayama University Graduate Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, and others)

Chapter 16 - Clinical Applications of Robotic Image-Guided Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Recurrent Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery (pp. 269-284)
Authors / Editors: (Yoshihiro Yamashita, Noriaki Yamamoto, Tatsurou Tanaka, Masafumi Oda, Ikuya Miyamoto, Daigo Yoshiga, Shinnosuke Nogami, Shinji Kito, Nao Wakasugi-Sato, Shinobu Matsumoto-Takeda, Ayataka Ishikawa, Kou Matsuo, Hirofumi Koga, Satoru Ozeki, Tetsu Takahashi, Yasuhiro Morimoto, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan, and others)

Chapter 17 - Targeted Cancer Therapies and Oral Cancer: Action, Clinical Results and Current Problematic Issues (pp. 285-306)
Authors / Editors: (Eva-Maria Dietrich, Konstantinos Antoniades, Department of Histology and Embryology, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, and others)

Chapter 18 - Oral Mucositis Induced by Cancer Therapy: From Biology to Management (pp. 307-318)
Authors / Editors: (Denise Tostes Oliveira, Kellen Cristine Tjioe, Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos, José Endrigo Tinoco-Araújo, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil)