NBI in Oral Cavity Cancer

Oral cancer starts in the mucosa of the mouth and the most common site is the tongue and gingiva. One of the most important issues for the prognosis is to surgically remove all the cancer, at the sides as well as at the deep margin. To accomplish that, it is crucial to identify the border between tumour and healthy tissue. Traditionally white light from a head light or operation theatre lamp is used to illuminate the area of the tumour. Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) is an optical technique where ordinary white light is filtered so only the blue light in it is used. Illuminating the mucosa with this blue light through an endoscope with high definition image, makes the blood vessels appear more clearly. The altered blood vessels that the cancer produce can thereby be seen and mark the area where the tumour starts. This study examines if NBI is helpful in the decision of where the border between the cancer and the normal mucosa is. If so, NBI might improve the possibility to remove all cancer tissue compared to using the ordinary white light. This study will also increase the knowledge about the NBI technique, which is helpful in the examination of patients with suspected head and neck cancers and at the follow-up of patients after treatment. Participants are patients with oral cancer presenting at the otorhinolaryngology department in Örebro University hospital in Sweden for surgical treatment. The surgery will be done in the usual fashion but the mucosa surrounding the tumour will also be illuminated by NBI and this picture of the vessels will be compared to the microscopic analysis by the pathologist, the so called PAD. Thereby we seek to compare the border in white light to the border seen with NBI.

Sex

All

Minimum age

18 Years

Inclusion Criteria:

Biopsy proven squamous cell carcinomaI. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) 10 C02-C06.

Exclusion Criteria:

* former extensive surgery in the oral cavity that effects the examination
* former radiation to the oral cavity
* patients not suitable for surgery

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