Potential of optical coherence tomography for early diagnosis of oral malignancies

With nearly 1,500,000 new patients diagnosed every year in the USA, cancer poses a considerable challenge to healthcare today. Oral cancer is responsible for a sizeable portion of deaths due to cancer, primarily because it is diagnosed at a late stage when the prognosis is poor. Current methods for diagnosing oral cancer need to be augmented by better early detection, monitoring and screening modalities. A new approach is needed that provides real-time, accurate, noninvasive diagnosis. The results of early clinical trials using in vivo optical coherence tomography for the diagnosis of oral dysplasia and malignancy are encouraging.

• Publication year

  2010

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  Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

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  Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1586/era.09.191PMID 20214513PMCID PMC4038412
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