Open AccessA clinicopathological study of various oral cancer diagnostic techniques
Author(s) -
G Ulaganathan,
Karen Niazi,
Soundarya Srinivasan,
V. Balaji,
D Manikandan,
Khalid Hameed,
A. Banumathi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_110_17
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , cancer therapy , head and neck cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , head and neck , intensive care medicine , mortality rate , medical physics , surgery , paleontology , biology
Oral cancer is one of the most commonly occurring malignant tumors in the head and neck regions with high incident rate and mortality rate in the developed countries than in the developing countries. Generally, the survival rate of cancer patients may increase when diagnosed at early stage, followed by prompt treatment and therapy. Recently, cancer diagnosis and therapy design for a specific cancer patient have been performed with the advanced computer-aided techniques. The responses of the cancer therapy could be continuously monitored to ensure the effectiveness of the treatment process that hardly requires diagnostic result as quick as possible to improve the quality and patient care. This paper gives an overview of oral cancer occurrence, different types, and various diagnostic techniques. In addition, a brief introduction is given to various stages of immunoanalysis including tissue image preparation, whole slide imaging, and microscopic image analysis.