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Oral Cancer

Oral Cancer Introduction
Oral Cancer Treatment
Oral Cancer Symptoms
Oral Cancer Diagnosis
Oral Cancer Staging

What is oral cancer?

Oral cancer is the most common form of head and neck cancer, which can occur in any part of the oral cavity, most commonly in the tongue, gums, buccal, and sublingual regions. Among all cancer types, the incidence of oral cancer accounts for 1.45% to 5.6% of systemic malignant tumors, with a higher incidence in men than in women. The World Health Organization's Global Status Report on Oral Health (2022) estimated that oral diseases affect nearly 3.5 billion people worldwide, three-quarters of whom live in middle-income countries. And in Malaysia, oral cancer remains among the top 20 most common cancers, with a five-year prevalence of 2,199 cases.

What are the causes of oral cancer?

Long-term addition to smoking or drinking

Bad oral hygiene.

Long-term stimulation of foreign body.

Innutrition.

Leukoplakia and erythroplakia.

Ultraviolet rays.

Ionizing radiation.

So can middle and late-staged oral cancer be cured? Minimally invasive techniques with few side effects and minimal trauma can help oral cancer patients avoid surgical removal, avoid suffering from traditional radiotherapy, and effectively prolong survival.

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Oral Cancer Traditional Treatment Methods

Surgical treatmentSurgery to remove cancerous tissue and clean cervical lymph nodes that may have metastasis.
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy for follicular adenocarcinoma.
chemotherapyOften used as palliative therapy for inoperable or distantly metastatic advanced cancer.
Chinese treatmentTraditional Chinese medicine therapy can inhibit the development of cancer, improve the immune function of patients with thyroid cancer, and reduce the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Oral Cancer Treatment Technology

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Radiofrequency Ablation

Radiofrequency ablation, sometimes referred to as RFA, is a minimally invasive treatment for cancer. It is an image-guided technique that heats and destroys cancer cells.　Under the guidance of image,...

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DEB-TACE

Drug-eluting bead transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) is an interventional therapy used in tumor treatment. It is a tiny sphere made of polymers or ceramics with a certain range of siz...

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Particle Knife

Particle knife (also called 125I Seed Implants) is applied to a variety of primary and metastatic tumors nowadays. 125I seeds are some small iodine radioactive particles that can give off short-range γ...

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Nanoknife Technology

Nanoknife is a brand-new cutting-edge ablation technology for tumor treatment. It breaks the membrane of tumor cells with high voltage pulses from electrode probes, resulting in multiple irreversible n...

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Combined Knife

Combined Knife, it’s not actual surgical knife, but a composite cryogenic freezing surgical system, which conduct cold and heat ablation treatment with liquid-nitrogen by one or more ablation needles...

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Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy, also named cryosurgery therapy or cryoablation, is a medical technique both ancient and modern....

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Interventional Therapy

Interventional therapy is a mini-invasive therapy performed under the guidance of medical imaging equipments. With a 1-2 millimeter incision, paracentesis can be performed with the lead of medical imag...

Oral Cancer Patients' Story

They come from different countries around the world, but they have experienced the same experience and endured the pain that cancer has brought to them. However, now, with the effective treatment and meticulous care of St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, they have rekindled their confidence in life and become anti-cancer fighters. Here, they share their anti-cancer experience, love and warmth with everyone.

Rectal cancer: CHAN KHIAN YAP; Malaysiamore than 2 years

squamous cell carcinoma: Issa; Indonesia

Lung cancer: Phang Fuk Chon; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

Lung cancer: Vuong Thi Hoa; Vietnamesemore than 2 years

Breast cancer: SWASTI SAWITRI SUYOTO; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

Ganglioneuroma: SADIE; PhilippinesMore than 1 year

Lung Cancer: Mochamad Sadikin; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

thyroid cancer: Mutiara; IndonesiaMore than 3 years

Bone cancer: Siti Rosidah Sundari; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

Cervical cancer: Edoharidwi Doko; Indonesiamore than 2 years

MDT TEAM

: Pan Xiaofeng; Attending Physician, International Oncology Ward | Attending Physician

: Zhai Xueli; Attending Physician,Oncology Department | Attending Physician

: Pan Xin; Resident physician, Oncology Department | Resident physician

: Qin Yubing; Attending physician ,Oncology Department | Attending physician

: Tan Chunyan; International Oncology Resident | Resident Physician

: AGILA ADNAN; International Oncology Resident | Resident Physician

: Shen Shiheng; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Zhao Yifan; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Dong Kui; Attending Physician, International Oncology Ward | Oncologist

: Ma Yumei; Physician-in-Charge | Oncologist

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Oral Cancer Symptoms

What are the symptoms of oral cancer?

Change of color: the abnormality of oral cavity that its color changes into white, brown and black suggests the change of epithelial cell of mucous membrane. Especially when the mucous membrane becomes rough, thick or has nodules, and cavity leukoplakia or erythroplakia occurs, it may suggest cancerous lesion has happened.

Unhealed ulcer: course of mouth ulcer usually is less than two weeks. Therefore, if you have symptoms like burning feeling and pain for more than two weeks without getting better, you should look out for them, as they may be signs of oral cancer.

Obvious pain: usually, oral cancer has no pain but only local abnormal friction feeling in the early stage, while obvious pain occurs after the ulcer cracks. As the cancer further invades the nerves, the patient may feel pain in the ears and throat.

Swollen lymph nodes: most oral cancers can invade the nearby lymph nodes of the neck, causing swelling of lymph nodes.

Dysfunction: oral cancer can invade the masticatory muscles and mandibular joint, causing limitation to the activity of the mouth.

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Oral Cancer Diagnosis

Self-examination of oral cancer

Face and neck examination: when examining the neck, try to raise your head backwards as much as you can and check whether there are abnormalities in the inferior maxilla area and neck. Touch both sides of your neck and the inferior maxilla area with your hands to feel the difference between the inferior maxilla area and the two sides of the neck.

Lip examination: observe the outer side of both lips, touch them with your hands, lightly pull down the lower lip with your fingers and check its inner side, and then check the inner side of your upper lip.

Gum examination: observe your gums and touch them with your fingers to see whether there are abnormalities.

Cheek examination: keep you mouth closed, lightly pull both corners of your mouth oppositely towards the direction of your ears, touch both your cheeks and see whether there is abnormality.

Check your tongue: stretch out your tongue, hold it with your hand, touch and observe the surface, pull it to the left and then right side to check whether there are abnormalities on lateral borders.

Check the roof of the tongue: raise your tongue, touch and observe it to check whether there are abnormities.

Check the pharynx and palate: open your mouth and say “ah”, observe the pharynx under light, raise your head backwards, and touch the palate to see whether there is abnormality.

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