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University of California, Berkeley, BA, 1950, Zoology
University of California, Berkeley, MA, 1951, Physiology
University of California San Francisco, DDS, 1954, Dentistry
University of California San Francisco, Certificate, 1955, Oral Medicine

Walton L, Silverman S, Costa CR: Epidemiology and demographic update in oral cancer: California 1973-1990. J Calif Dent Assn 19:17-22, 1991.

Epstein J, Silverman S: HIV-associated malignancies. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 73:193-200, 1992.

Gorsky M, Dayan D, Marom Z, Silverman S: Consumption of tobacco as an etiologic factor in a group of 465 oral cancer patients in Israel. Cancer J 5:208-210, 1992.

Silverman S: Precancerous lesions and oral cancer in the elderly. Clinics Geriatric Med 8:529-541, 1992.

Walton L, Silverman S, Ramos D, Costa CR: Dental student education in oncology: design and assessment of an undergraduate course. J Cancer Educ 7:221-225, 1992.

Regezi JA, MacPhail LA, Daniels TE, Silverman S: Oral Kaposi's sarcoma: a 10 year retrospective histopathologic study. J Oral Pathol Med. 22:292-297, 1993.

Silverman S: Clinical diagnosis and early detection of oral cancer. Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am 5:199-205, 1993.

Silverman S: Oral cavity toxicity secondary to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. In: Chemoradiation (J Madu, ed.) Lea Febiger, 1993.

Silverman S: Radiation and chemotherapy injury: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Oral radiation and chemotherapy pathology. Crit Rev Oncol/Hematol 15:63-67, 1993.

Epstein JB, Burchell JL, Emerton S, Lee ND, Silverman S: A clinical trial of bethanechol in patients with xerostomia after radiation therapy. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 77:610-614, 1994.

Gorsky M, Silverman S: Tobacco usage in patients with head and neck carcinomas: habit changes and second primary oral/oropharyngeal cancers in patients in San Francisco. Cancer J 7:78-80, 1994.

Kaugars GE, Silverman S, Lovas JG: A clinical trial of antioxidant supplements in the treatment of oral leukoplakia. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 78:462-468, 1994.

Silverman S: Oral cancer education and HIV-associated malignancies. J Cancer Educ 9:152-154, 1994

Cooper JS, Fu K, Marks J, Silverman S: Late effects of radiation therapy in the head and neck region. Intl J Rad Oncol Biol Phys 31:1141-1164, 1995.

Kaugars GE, Silverman S: The use of 13-CRA in treatment of oral leukoplakia. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 79:264, 1995.

Palefsky JM, Silverman S, Abdel-Salaam M: Association between proliferative verrucous leukoplakia and infection with human papillomavirus Type 16. J Oral Pathol Med 24:193-197, 1995.

Regezi JA, Zarbo RJ, Regev E, Pisanty S, Silverman S: p 53 expression in sequential biopsies of oral dysplasia and in situ carcinomas. J Oral Pathol Med 24:18-22, 1995.

Silverman S: Oral white lesions with special reference to precancerous and tobacco-related lesions: conclusions of an international symposium (T Akell, Ed). J Oral Pathol Med 25:49-54, 1996.

Merrell P, Carpenter W, Silverman S: Reactivity of monoclonal antibodies 17.13 and 63.12 with oral epithelial dysplasia and hyperkeratosis. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 83:367-372, 1997.

Ramirez V, Silverman S, Mayer P: Candidal colonization and oral candidiasis in patients undergoing oral and pharyngeal radiation therapy. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Path Oral Radiol Endod 84:149-153, 1997.

Silverman S: Case report, oral squamous cell carcinoma (R Melrose, Ed). J Calif Dental Assn 25: 539-543, 1997.

Silverman S, Bahl S: Oral lichen planus update: clinical characteristics, treatment responses, and malignant transformation in 95 patients. Amer J Dent 10:259-263, 1997.

Silverman, S, Gorsky M: Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: a follow-up study of 54 cases. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 84:154-157, 1997.

Silverman S: Oral Cancer (4th Edition), B. C. Decker, Ontario, Canada, 1998.

Schoelch ML, Le QT, Silverman S, et al.: Apoptosis-associated proteins and the development of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Eur J Cancer 35:77-85, 1999.

Schoelch ML, Regezi J, Oekker N, Silverman S, et al.: Cell cycle proteins and the development of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Eur J Cancer 35:332-342, 1999.

Silverman S: Current concepts in the management of oral/dental adverse sequelae of head and neck radiotherapy. In: Radiation Injury: Advances in management and prevention. Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Karger 32:34-48, 1999.

Silverman S: Oral Cancer -Complications of treatment. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 88:122-126, 1999.

Pettig A, Pogrel MA, Silverman S, et al.; Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 90:723-730, 2000.

Shiboski, CH, Shiboski, SC, Silverman, S: Trends in oral cancer rates in the United States 1973-1996. Commun Dent Oral Epidemiol 228:249-256, 2000.

Silverman S: The bullous desquamative lesions of the oral cavity. J Calif Dent Assn 2000; 28:928-932.

Silverman S: Lichen planus- a premalignant oral lesion. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 58:1286-1288, 2000.

Silverman S: Oral premalignancies and oral cancer. Clin Dermatol 18-563-68, 2000.

Epstein J, Silverman S, et al.: Benzydamine HCl for prophylaxis of radiation mucositis. Cancer 92:875-885, 2001.

Silverman S: Demographics and occurrence of oral and pharyngeal cancers. J Amer Dent Assn 132:7S-11S, 2001.

Silverman S: Problem solving in oral cancer. Alpha Omegan 94:29-32, 2001.

Silverman S: Graduating dental students perceptions of oral cancer education. J Cancer Educ 17:83, 2002.

Silverman S: Oral cancer prevention and early detection: J Practical Hyg 12:28, 2003.

Macabeo-Ong M, Silverman S, et al: Quantitative analysis of cathepsin L mRNA and protein expression during oral cancer progression. Oral Oncology 39:638-47, 2003.

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