Oral Cancer Causes and Prevention: An Overview
Keywords:
Oral cancer, Squamous cell carcinoma, Risk factors of oral cancer, Staging and treatment, DiagnosisAbstract
Cancer is the unmanageable growth of cells that infect and have bad effect on the nearby tissue. Mouth cancer, or oral cancer, can occur anywhere in the mouth and is any cancerous tissue located in the oral cavity. Oral cancer (OC) is the commonest cancer in India. Oral mucositis (OM) is the oral materialization of mucosal injury (MUI), and is a common, bothersome, and treatment-interrupting toxicity of chemoradiation therapy for squamous cell cancers (SCC) of the head and neck. Medication errors with oral cancer therapies such as methotrexate and temozolomide have resulted in casualty. There are two different pathways through which people mainly acquire oral cancer. One is smoking or chewing tobacco and drinking alcoholic beverages and second is by exposure to the Human Papilloma Virus-16 (HPV-16). Out of total cases a little proportion of individuals (less than 7%) get affected by oral cancers, the cause of which is not known yet. It is currently believed that these are likely related to some genetic predisposition. Some people think this as an uncommon cancer, but it is increasing at an alarming rate every day.
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