Billy Ballard, DDS, MD, and M. Abraham Kuriakose, MD, put into perspective the essence of oral cancer. At the current rate 53,000 new cases of oral cancer will be diagnosed this year and of that 11,000 of those patients will die from that disease. This lecture covers the advances in diagnosis and treatments to increase the rate of survival.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship: Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Billy Ballard, MD, DDS, is the Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education; Chairman and Professor, Pathology, Meharry Medical College. His research specialty is Anatomic/Surgical Pathology; Head and Neck, breast, genitourinary (prostate), ...
Director, Translational Research for Head & Neck / Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Moni Abraham Kuriakos, MD, FDSRCS, FFDRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS, BDS
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Oncology
Vice Chairman, Department of Head & Neck Surgery / Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Director, Translational Research for Hea