Development of Oral Cancer : Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies

This book aims to provide the reader with a complete understanding of the development of oral cancer by explaining the role of a wide variety of implicated risk factors and identifying their gene targets and key regulators. Some of the discussed risk factors are well known, including smoking, alcoho...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Al Moustafa, Ala-Eddin (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319480541
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-48054-1
Physical DescriptionVIII, 217 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Human oral cancer (epidemiology and characteristic
  • Novel Developments in the Molecular Genetic basis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC)?
  • Oral Cancer: After the Completion of the Human Genome Project
  • Smoking and Oral Cancer
  • Alcohol and Oral Cancer
  • High-risk human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus presence and crosstalk in human oral carcinogenesis
  • Oral cancer - Epidemiology and infections (bacterial & fungal) global incidence
  • Oral Cancer and Chewing Habits
  • Role of Qat Chewing and Mate consumption in human oral carcinogenesis
  • Photodynamic Diagnosis and Therapy for Oral: Cancers Detection and Treatment
  • Role of Nutrition in Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers: from Etiology to Prevention
  • Prevention of Oral cancer.