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Oral squamous cell carcinoma following treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Author(s) -
Waal R. I. F.,
Veerman A. J. P.,
Snow G. B.,
Waal I.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1997.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , etiology , chemotherapy , basal cell , lymphoblastic leukemia , carcinoma , oncology , dermatology , leukemia
With substantially increased survival after most paediatric cancers over the past decades have come the late sequelae of treatment. Of all late complications of treatment, second malignancies are generally considered to be the most serious. We report on a 20‐year‐old man with an oral squamous cell carcinoma 17 years after initial chemotherapy and irradiation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Although occurrence of the oral malignancy in this patient could have been treatment‐related, one should keep in mind that the occurrence of second tumours may also be based on a shared genetic aetiology.