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American Academy of Oral Medicine Clinician's Guide: The Dentist's Role in the Management of the Cancer Patient First Edition September 7, 2011 Wendy Hupp, DMD, Editor Cesar Augusto Migliorati, DDS, MS, PhD, Editor Mike Brennan, DDS, MHS, Editor Cancer is one of the leading causes of death within the United States. Dentists within the United States will, as a routine part of practice, see patients who have cancer and are under the care of the oncologist, or who survived cancer. The aggressive use of combined modality treatment approaches, novel drug therapies and the use of high dose therapy with stem cell transplantation have led to an increased number of cancer survivors.
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