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To the Editor: In their review article on head and neck cancer, Vokes et al. (Jan. 21 issue)¹ cite my editorial² as indicating that oral erythroplasia is premalignant and carries a higher risk of transformation to invasive carcinoma than leukoplakia.

This is a misconception. My prospective studies^3,4,5 of erythroplastic lesions have focused primarily on early invasive carcinoma. Supporting Shedd's⁶ original clinical observation, these studies have demonstrated that erythroplasia is the earliest clinical sign of asymptomatic squamous carcinoma, not precancer. I did not report on the transformation from precancer to cancer. The initial biopsies of the erythroplastic lesions that persisted for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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