Oral Micro-Biome and Their Role in Developing Oral Cancer

Khan Z, Khan A and Malik K

Published on: 2024-11-23

Abstract

Cancer is the most notorious and devastating disease of the mankind. In most of the cases it doesn't show any symptoms until it reaches to the chronic stage that might be fatal in most of the obvious cases. Researches are being done to show the relationship between the causative agent and the diseases. There is an obvious relationship between the micro-biome and the occurrence of cancer. The most commonly studied micro-biome is the oral micro-biome. The balance in the micro-biome is important. Sometimes the balance is disturbed due to many reasons like environmental factors, poor hygienic conditions, chronic Inflammation and many more conditions. In case of oral micro-biome Dysbiosis the result is the oral cancer commonly known as Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. It is the multi-factorial and thus has many causes but we will here only discuss the imbalance in the oral micro-biome and its effect on OSCC.