Abstract
After 30 years working in the field of oral pathology with strong emphasis in oral cancer diagnosis, teaching, and research, several thoughts come to mind about lessons obtained from patients and their sufferings. Undoubtedly, scientific and clinical aspects, including etiology, risk factors, genetic and epigenetic disorders, psychoneuroimmunology, and diagnostic and therapeutic methods constitute specific knowledge obtained during the process. Nevertheless, other essential lessons like the strong impact to the patient, the patient's family, health team, and the whole society; together with the necessary respect to the patient's decisions and the consequences of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis; turn out to be the fundamental knowledge that comes to lead the behavior toward the assisting activity in the field. In this paper, several cases of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma have been selected to analyze the importance of the fundamental considerations necessary to keep in mind when treating patients with this disease.
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