Early detection of oral cancer : who is responsible?

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.