Oral cancer: diagnostic options as an aid to histology in order to predict patients at high risk for malignant transformation.

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Oral cancer continues to afflict the general population in growing numbers with a relatively low survival rate. Today, through histology, the potential danger of a pre-cancerous lesion can be detected, yet it does not reflect with certainty its biologic behavior. Recent studies have shown that some pre-cancerous lesions with mild dysplasia may undergo malignant transformation and lesions with severe dysplasia may...

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