Familiar With Oral Cavity Cancer II

Oral Cavity Cancer- Oral cavity cancer can spread locally and destroy surrounding tissue if not handled properly and quickly. A more serious threat occurs when cancer cells spread to the lymph nodes under the chin or the side of the neck. The spread may be more widespread through the blood vessels to the lungs or elsewhere.

So far the oral cavity cancer treated with surgical removal of tissue with cancer. If deemed necessary the patient will also be treated with radiation or radiotherapy. Chemotherapy is usually only done to patients who had a relapse or their condition was inoperable.

Unfortunately, because patients usually only went to the doctor where the objec advanced stage cancer, surgical treatment becomes more difficult to do. Form of the oral cavity and a small mouth organ also complicate the process of cancer surgery. Imagine if the cancer is the tongue. The entire tongue should be lifted if the cancer has spread past the midline of the tongue.

Humans would be difficult to live without a tongue. The inability to swallow and eat to make the patient experienced a drastic weight loss. Not to mention if the cancer had disrupted his nerves. Patients usually feel a terrible pain in the ear.

In higher stages, oral cancer did not just snatch a precious organ of speech, but also claimed the beauty of the face. So if you want to be able to talk, sing and sway the tongue while eating a meal, follow the suggestions below. Stop smoking, smoked marijuana and drank alcohol. Leave a habit of chewing, although our grandmothers used to say good chewing for healthy teeth. The latter do not forget to always maintain the cleanliness of the oral cavity and teeth checked regularly.

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Familiar With Oral Cavity Cancer

Oral cavity cancer - the same as other types of cancer - cause unknown. These factors trigger is already clear. Smoking, consuming alcoholic beverages, and chewing betel with tobacco was ranked highest extrinsic triggering factors that cause most oral cancers. There are still some other factors such as poor oral health, and viral infections such as syphilis and human papilloma virus (Human Papilloma Virus / HPV). Sucking habit is believed marijuana could also trigger oral cancer, as experienced by most patients with oral cancer in the United States.

Viewed from the trigger factor, smokers and drinkers of alcoholic beverages classified at high risk for oral cancer. Similarly, people who have a habit of chewing betel nut and tobacco. Tobacco contains many carcinogens or carcinogenic substances such as nicotine, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and polonium nitrosoproline. The results showed consumed tobacco has cancer risk 8-fold higher than those not using tobacco.

Other signs are red spots (eritoplakia). Just as leukoplakia, this eritoplakia shaped like a mouth ulcer that never healed. When you have an enlarged, patches will change like cauliflower or a cactus flower. The middle brittle and smelly. 90% of eritoplakia will be oral cancer.

Because not feel sick, most new patients to check themselves when their oral cavity cancer who have suffered the status of an advanced stage. Patients generally come with complaints of a lump, ulcer or ulcers in the mouth parts, and a lump in the neck. At this advanced stage patients have started to suffer pain. 50% of oral cancer usually attacks the tongue (2 / 3 part of the tongue from the front) and the floor of the mouth. 50% of the other attacking the inner cheek and gums. There also have it at the ceiling and the inner lip.

Tumors that develop into cancer was also likes to play hide and seek. For example, tumors growing under the tooth. As a result, teeth become more stable. Beware! Do not pull any. Pulling teeth shake because it will accelerate the spread of tumor cells.

To ensure patients with cancer or not, every patient who experienced these complaints should undergo a biopsy test. Suspected cancer tissue will be cut about 2-3 millimeters of tissue for examination. Examination results can already be obtained after 4-5 days.

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