Oral cancer is a highly aggressive tumor with invasive properties that can lead to metastasis
and high mortality rates. Conventional treatment strategies, such as surgery, chemotherapy …

The past several years have seen major advances in the use of systemic therapy for
treatment of patients with oral cancer. Systemic therapy refers to chemotherapy and …

An estimated 4% of all cancers are of the oral cavity or oropharyngeal. Presently,
management of the oral cancers mainly includes surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy …

In the last few decades, the number of targeted chemotherapies approved for cancer
treatment and undergoing clinical trials has risen. In comparison to conventional …

Background Targeted treatments have been incorporated into oncology protocols, often with
more traditional therapies, and are not totally free of adverse reactions, some of which affect …

Oncology is one of the few areas of medicine where most patients are treated intravenously
rather than receiving oral drugs. Recently, several oral anti-cancer drugs have been …

Oral cavity cancer (OCC) is associated with high incidence of loco-regional recurrences,
which account for the majority of treatment failures post-surgery and radiotherapy. The time …

Background Recent basic science discoveries have contributed to our understanding of the
etiology of oral cancer and allowed us to consider innovative approaches to therapy …

Simple Summary Chemotherapy is a key modality in today's practice of clinical oncology.
The potential for systemic treatment of cancer patients with cytotoxic agents was discovered …

Cancer is a major public health problem since it is the second leading cause of illness-
related death, only exceeded by heart disease (American Cancer Society [ACS],(2010)) …