Precancerous lesions in the oral cavity: Early treatment increases the chances of survival – pay attention to symptoms. Around 3,740 women and around 9,350 men suffer from malignant tumors of the Oral cavity and throat every year in Germany.
In 28 percent of those operated on, the supposed carcinoma in situ turned out to be an invasive tumor, meaning that it had already grown into the surrounding connective tissue. Many of these patients also had risk characteristics for an unfavorable course of the disease and lymph node involvement.