Abstract:
Oral squamous carcinoma or oral
cancer (OC), as it is generally known,
has an average five-year survival
rate of less than 50%. This has not
changed much in 50 years. The survival
rate can be more than 90% with
early diagnosis, but as low as 20%, if
the lesion is diagnosed late.1,2 Early
detection of oral cancer is therefore
essential to improve the otherwise
dismal five-year survival rate.
