ReviewCancers2024
Precursor Lesions, Overdiagnosis, and Oral Cancer: A Critical Review.
Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Global Prevalence of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology · 2026Pooled it
- Podoplanin Expression and the Risk of Malignant Transformation of Oral Pre-Malignant Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Head & neck · 2025Pooled it
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- Impact of biopsy-related variables on MRI assessment of tumor invasion in early oral squamous cell carcinoma.Clinical oral investigations · 2026Article
- INHBA-S100A16 dysregulation enables a non-invasive molecular stratification platform for rapid detection of oral squamous cell carcinoma: results from a large diagnostic case-control study.Biomarker research · 2026Article
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- Explainable AI for Oral Cancer Diagnosis: Multiclass Classification of Histopathology Images and Grad-CAM Visualization.Biology · 2025Article
- Observational Diagnostics: The Building Block of AI-Powered Visual Aid for Dental Practitioners.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Review
- Oral Mucosa Capillaroscopy: A Narrative Review.Cancers · 2024Review
- A Roadmap for the Rational Use of Biomarkers in Oral Disease Screening.Biomolecules · 2024Review
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Abstract
Despite the profession placing great emphasis on oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) as a gateway for early recognition and consequently better outcomes for oral cancer, the death rates for lip and oral cavity cancer have remained stagnant for three decades. Evidence shows that only a small fraction of oral cancers are in fact preceded by OPMDs, and that most OPMDs have an annual transformation rate of less than 1%. As OPMDs encompass a very heterogeneous group of oral conditions, it could be argued that only patients with oral mucosal diseases bearing a substantial risk of malignant transformation warrant close surveillance and treatment, these include proliferative leukoplakia, erythroplakia, non-homogeneous leukoplakia, as well as diseases presenting with severe dysplasia at biopsy. In this narrative review, I discuss the intricate epidemiology of the malignancies that we colloquially refer to as oral cancer, explore the limitations of focusing on OPMDs to reduce the incidence and mortality of oral cavity cancer, and argue that a
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