Oral cancer

Oral Cancer On average, 43,000 Americans are diagnosed with oral cancer per year. Of those 43,000, it will cause over 8,000 deaths. That is one person every hour of every day. This number is rising higher and higher not because it’s hard to discover or diagnose but the early stages of oral cancer are going unnoticed (“Oral Cancer Facts” 2014). More often than not, treatment is being sought out after it is too late. Understanding the causing factors of this disease and taking the proper precautions of prevention will help lower your chance of becoming just another statistic of this horrible disease. Just as any other cancer, oral cancer can be fatal if it is not properly diagnosed and diagnosed early. Oral cancer includes the development of…

There are about 40,000 cases of oral cancers diagnosed in the United States every year and it will cause over 8,650 deaths. The death rate for oral cancer is greater than cervical and endocrine cancers. Of those 40,000 cases, only slightly more than half will be alive in 5 years. Oral cancer is a cancer that begins in the mouth or the throat at the back of the mouth. There is an uncontrollable growth of cells that invade and cause damage to tissues. Mouth cancer or Oral cancer may arise as a…

one’s health is it can cause mouth/oral cancer. I choose to do the topic of how smoking causes oral cancer because I have a friend whose mom how has been suffering with oral cancer going on nine years now. My friend’s mom got oral cancer not because she was the one that smoked, but because the people that she worked with were always smoking around her. One out of five people that live in the US are currently smoking. Eight out of ten oral cancer patients smoked. Several symptoms that one might…

3.6 Management 3.61 Treatment Oral cancer is a localised disease that most likely infiltrates adjacent bone and soft tissue and tends to spread to regional lymph nodes in the head and neck region. It is essential to carry out a thorough examination which includes, inspection, palpation of oral cavity and neck; distant metastasis is quite unlikely. Imaging modalities such as CT and MRI are commonly used to investigate the extent of spread of oral cancer to adjacent tissues including bone and…

Oral Cancer Oral Cancer falls in the same category as head and neck cancer. It is usually found in the front or floor of the mouth, or on the tongue. Survival rates of this type of cancer are good if it is detected early. Unfortunately, this type of cancer is hard to detect. The reason it is hard to detect is because the symptoms can go unnoticed. Who is at Risk? The people most at risk for developing oral cancer are tobacco users and alcohol users. If alcohol and tobacco are combined, the…

things like gum disease and tooth decay, but there is something we haven’t put enough emphasis on yet, and that is cancer. Cancer in all it’s forms is a potentially fatal and devastating disease that kills an estimated 500,000 Americans a year. Those that do survive being diagnosed with cancer only walk away from it after a long and difficult battle with it. What does this have to do with dental health and care? More than you might suspect. There is a type of cancer that is labeled “Oral…

During the course of this research paper, I will define what oral cancer is, what some of the biggest contributing factors that lead to this type of cancer, and what the relationship between oral cancer, smokeless tobacco and baseball is. In addition to that, I will highlight how this cancer can be eliminated with the proper treatment, how to educate people on the dangers of smokeless tobacco and provide some examples of famous baseball players and how oral cancer has affected their lives.…

to treat cancer and other multifactorial diseases, and since I have previous experience in the inhibition of cell signaling pathways in melanoma, I believe we could establish a productive research relationship. After I earned my doctoral degree in Microbiology, my first postdoctoral appointment in U.S was in the laboratory of Dr. Keiran Smalley at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Our main objective was to develop novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of melanoma through the inhibition of…

Tongue cancer is a very common cancer that plagues people daily. It is a form of oral cancer that forms in the front two-thirds of the mouth. It usually develops in the squamous cells of the mouth. Around forty- three- thousand people in the U.S alone are affected by this type of cancer just this year. It kills roughly one person per hour, which is twenty-four in one day alone. This cancer causes a lot of deaths and a little more than half of the people with this cancer will die in the next five…

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNCCC) is the sixth most common cancer known worldwide with an incidence of 0.5 million new cases diagnosed annually, around half of these cases are oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) (Jithesh et al., 2013). Though numerous risk factors have been implicated in the development of OSCC , the most important are tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and betel-quid chewing (Petti et al., 2013). Evidences suggested that viruses are involved in oral…