Optical Coherence Tomography as an Oral Cancer Screening Adjunct in a Low Resource Settings

Oral cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide, predominantly seen in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Two thirds of all cases are detected at a late stage when prognosis and treatment outcomes are poor. Oral lesions are commonly detected by visual inspection, followed by invasive surgical biopsy and time-consuming histopathological analysis. Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a min...