Oral Cancer is one of the most prevalent malignancy in developing countries and it makes up about 90% of all Head and Neck Cancer cases being detected worldwide. Oral Cancer is the seventh most prevalent type of cancer in the world. Around 640000 cases of Head and Neck Cancer cases are detected worldwide out of […]
Increase in Risk of Oral Cancer due to Inflammatory Tongue Conditions
Incidence of Oral Cancers has increased considerably in the past few decades irrespective of gender or Age as compared to the 1980’s. The exact reasons for this kind of increase is not clear and a team of researchers conducted a case-control study using SEER-Medicare dataset (1992-2013) which included 2534 oral tongue cancers, 6832 oral cancers, […]
Hepatitis C Infection increases the risk of Oral Cancer
Oral Cancer cases are on the rise and based on a research published in the journal of the National Cancer Institute, patients who are infected with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) are twice as likely to develop Oral cancer in the mouth or the oropharynx. Hepatitis C Virus can be contracted through infected blood, shared needles, […]