Oral Effects of Cancer Treatment
By Eswar Kandaswamy, BDS and Purnima S. Kumar, DDS, PhD
Part 1 of a two-part series. Part two will focus on managing additional oral complications in this patient population and will appear in a future issue.
While cancer has typically been associated with significant mortality, therapeutic advances have increased the number of cancer survivors. However, the disease and its treatment are associated with morbidity that can impact the quality of life for survivors. The goal of this review is to discuss the oral manifestations of nonoral cancers, oral side effects of cancer therapy, and the role of the oral health professional in cancer management.
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