title: The patient with cancer.
abstract: Patients with cancer require competent oral health care, provided by a sympathetic and conscientious clinician. Often the ambulatory patient will be best managed by the generalist-family dentist. An understanding of the nature of oral disease in these compromised patients and a readiness to discuss dental treatment modifications with the attending physician should help prepare the dentist to prevent and to treat oral disease in the patient with cancer.
mesh_terms: D003730:Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities / Q000379:methods*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000150:complications; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000628:therapy*