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| Title: | An oral cancer screening study of high risk individuals |
| Authors: | O'Sullivan, Eleanor |
| Affiliation: | University College Cork (UCC) |
| Publisher: | Irish Cancer Society |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/240878 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | This study indicates that an Oral Cancer Screening programme targeted at high risk 1nd1viduals
1s feasible, acceptable and effect1ve. In a senes of 210 residents, 60% of whom were outside
the ideal target age for Head and Neck Cancer, a total of 84 mucosal abnormalities were
detected. Thirteen of the 28 Extra-Oral Lesions/ENT symptoms and 19 of the 56 Intra-Oral
lesions were potentially significant. Despite the poor compliance rate for further investigation,
two premalignant les1ons were detected in the mam study group, a detect1on rate of 0.9%.
Furthermore, a malignant Basal Cell Cancer, which had 1nvaded mto deep dermis. was detected in
the sub-group excluded from the main study. If these residents are included, the detection rate for
malignant and premalignant lesions rises to 1.3% (3/220). |
| Keywords: | CANCER SCREENING
ORAL HEALTH |
| Appears in Collections: | Irish Cancer Society
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