Early detection of oral cancer : who is responsible?
| dc.contributor.author | Van Zyl, Andre W. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Heerden, Willem Francois Petrus | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-02T12:28:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-02T12:28:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Oral Pathology and Oral Biology | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Periodontics and Oral Medicine | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | am2017 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.sada.co.za | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Van Zyl, A & Van Heerden, WJP 2012, 'Early detection of oral cancer : who is responsible?', South African Dental Journal, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 154-156. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1029-4864 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59238 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | South African Dental Association | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | South African Dental Association | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Survival rate | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Diagnosis | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Lesion | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Oral cancer (OC) | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Early detection of oral cancer : who is responsible? | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |