clinicopathological presentation of oral squamous cell carcinoma in iraqi population

Background and aim: oral cancer is a major public health issue worldwide; it remains a highly lethal and disfiguring disease, it is primarily a disease of epithelial origin, it has various clinicopathological pictures. is to demonstrate various clinical and pathological presentations of oral squamous cell carcinoma in iraqi population. materials and methods: a total of 80 cases of histologically diagnosed squamous cell carcinoma collected from the main centers of sulaymaniyah teaching hospital/hiwa cancer center hospital/sulaymaniyah/iraq were analyzed according to age, sex, site, clinical, and pathological presentation of oral squamous cell carcinoma at the time of presentation, and histological grading. results: patients in their sixth decade of life were the most commonly affected with a maletofemale ratio of 1.4:1. the tongue was the most frequently affected site, followed by the floor of the mouth. the most common clinical presentation is ulceration and swelling. more than 40% of the cases were well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. conclusion: oral cancer is increasingly seen as a major health problem, in line with the general trend in the region, the need for inter-professional health care delivery approaches for reducing oral cancer mortality and improving patients' quality of life.