Cancer is a condition which claims the lives of thousands of people each year in which oral cancer has one of the worst survival rates, due to difficulty in early detection. Less than 50% of patients survive more than 5 years after diagnosis. If it is detected and treated early, survival of oral cancer is better than those of most cancers. Current diagnostic techniques involving observation, followed by biopsy (surgical sampling) if signs of deterioration are apparent, often cannot achieve early detection of cancerous change. Once a particular tumor has been found with a marker, the marker...

Pathology is a visual speciality which takes the pathologist in the arena of micro details amidst complex tissues. Although our eyes are conditioned to view normal cells, pathological cells often entrap us in a state of flux. Thus we have focussed on compiling the voluminous description of various pathological cells concerned to oral cavity, chiefly targeting the giant cells which is an instant reckoner for student population & pathologists as well.