Oral Cancer Images

Oral Cancer


  • Being at the third position in the list of cancers as per WHO screening data, it is the top most concern in the South-east Asian population.

  • Interplay of numerous factors puts this as an entity with variable outcome in terms of survival rate, recurrence and metastasis .

Photomicrograph showing hyperkeratinized dysplastic epithelium invading into the underlying stromal tissue in Oral Squamous cell Carcinoma (H & E; Magnification X 100).

Photomicrograph depicting dyskeratosis in the form of keratin pearl formation in Oral Squamous cell Carcinoma (H & E; Magnification X 400).

Photomicrograph showing prominent nucleoli and pleomorphism along with abnormal mitosis in Oral Squamous cell Carcinoma (H & E; Magnification X 400).

Photomicrograph revealing down projections of minimally invading tumor epithelium in Papillary Squamous cell Carcinoma (H & E; Magnification X 100).

Photomicrograph depicting pleomorphism, mitotic figures and loss of basal polarity in Papillary Squamous cell Carcinoma (H & E; Magnification X 400).