Mouth Cancer Surgery

Oral cancer is a malignant tumor originating from the oral mucosa. This group includes cancers of the body of the tongue, the bottom of the oral cavity, cheeks, gums, hard palate and palatine-lingual arch, salivary glands. The disease is manifested by long-term non-healing oral ulcers or tissue growth.

Visually, oral cancer takes different forms. The disease is divided into three groups depending on the appearance of the malignant tumor: ulcerative form, nodular form and papillary form. In the case of an ulcer form, the focus of the disease is a non-healing ulcer on the oral mucosa; the ulcer rapidly increases.

Diagnosis of the disease

When talking to a patient, oncologist Tel Aviv Medical Clinic will ask about the symptoms that have appeared, risk factors and the diseases suffered. After that, he will examine the head, neck, oral cavity, probes the lymph nodes.

Clinical recognition of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral mucosa is based on knowledge of the development of this form of malignant tumor and does not cause great difficulties. It is necessary to evaluate the localization of the tumor, its size, the degree of spread and the clinical form of growth. Up to now, the extent of tumor spread is determined visually and using instrumental and hardware diagnostic techniques. Secondary damage to the bone tumor of the facial skeleton is detected using the radiological method of examination and scintigraphy.

Surgery

In the treatment of patients with oral cancer and oropharynx, Tel Aviv Medical Clinic uses surgical, radiation and drug methods. Depending on the stage of the tumor, one or more methods of therapy are used.

For surgical treatment of oral and oropharyngeal tumors, various operations can be carried out taking into account the refinement of the location of the tumor and the stage of the process, as well as the need for reconstructive interventions to restore lost functions.

In patients with a mobile tumor in the oral cavity, the tumor is removed without excision of bone tissue. In case of limited tumor mobility and no changes in the bone (in X-rays), the tumor is removed along with part of the jaw. The apparent jaw lesion seen on radiographs requires a wider excision of bone tissue.

Malignant oral tumors often spread to the lymph nodes of the neck. In these cases, the operation of removing them and suspicious lymph nodes is shown. The volume of surgery depends on the degree of spread of the tumor and can be significant – up to the removal of muscles, nerves and vessels.