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Oral squamous cell carcinoma: a clinicopathological study on 194 cases in northeastern Brazil. A cross-sectional retrospective study.

Amanda Almeida LeiteAugusto César Leal da Silva LeonelJurema Freire Lisboa de CastroElaine Judite de Amorim CarvalhoPablo Agustin VargasLuiz Paulo KowalskiDanyel Elias da Cruz Perez
Published in: Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina (2018)
The findings of this study highlight the higher prevalence of oral SCC among women and the increasing number of cases among young patients. Thus there is no specific risk group for oral SCC, as in the past. This fact needs to be taken into consideration in clinical routine care, so that apparently innocuous malignant lesions do not go unnoticed in these individuals.
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