Oral Candidiasis Turns to Oral Cancer - A Rare Clinical Presentation

Usama Kharadi, Usama A. Kharadi, Pratik Parkarwar, Sagar Khairnar, Swati Reddy, Pradnya Arur and Tejas Kulkarni

Department of Dentistry, Oral Medicine and Radiology, P.D.U Dental College and Hospital, India

^*Correspondance to: Usama Kharadi 

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Abstract:

Oral carcinogens like tobacco and alcohol are well recognized risk factors associated with development oral precancerous lesions and subsequent cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract. The role of infection and chronic inflammation is also a recognized as being significant in cancer development. It has a well accepted fact that white patches of oral mucosa, which are super infected with Candida, have a greater probability of undergoing malignant transformation than those that are not infected. There are less case reports with association between chronic fungal infection and development of cancer. Here with, we report a case of chronic Candidial infection which was diagnosed and initially treated as chronic oral Candidiasis which on follow up turned into oral sqamous cell carcinoma.

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Cite the Article:

Kharadi U, Kharadi UA, Parkarwar P, Khairnar S, Reddy S, Arur P, et al. Oral Candidiasis Turns to Oral Cancer - A Rare Clinical Presentation. Clin Oncol. 2016; 1: 1126.