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This book aims to provide the reader with a complete understanding of the development of oral cancer by explaining the role of a wide variety of implicated risk factors and identifying their gene targets and key regulators. Some of the discussed risk factors are well known, including smoking, alcohol, betel quid chewing, and oncoviruses such as high-risk human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus; however, careful attention is also paid to less widely recognized factors, such as Qat chewing and yerba Mate consumption. The book concludes by describing and evaluating the most important strategies currently available for the prevention of oral carcinogenesis in humans. In presenting the most up-to-date research and knowledge on these topics, this book will serve as a valuable source of up-to-date information for oncologists, cancer scientists, and medical students. Author Information Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa earned his B.Sc. from Aleppo University (Aleppo-Syria) in 1982, and his Master as well as PhD in Developmental Biology (in the field of Oncogenes in the embryo) from the Institute of Embryology of the CNRS and Collège de France, and Paris XIII University (Paris-France) in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Afterwards, he completed his training as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) and Biotechnology Research Institute of the NRC of Canada and McGill University (Montreal-Canada); he then became a project director and an assistant professor at the LDI and the Oncology Department of McGill University, respectively.
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