title: The treatment and prognosis of oral precancer and cancer.
abstract: Oral cancer is an area of oncology that epitomises the need for a multidisciplinary approach. It involves many different sites, each with its own capacity to disseminate disease and to respond to medical therapy and rehabilitation. Within each site are various stages of spread that can be approached with different combinations and sequences of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. In many areas various therapeutic options exist; however, it has not yet been clearly established which modality or sequence of modalities is optimal. Only continual clinical research will resolve the existing conflicts and questions.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011230:Precancerous Conditions / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis