Health & Fitness
North Pittsburgh Oral Surgery wants you to know the risk factors of oral cancer
If oral cancer is detected early (in stages one or two), the survival rate is 80% to 90%!
April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month!
WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
There are two distinct pathways by which most people come to oral cancer. One is through the use of tobacco and alcohol, a long term historic problem and cause, and the other is through exposure to the HPV16 virus (human papilloma virus version 16), which is now the leading cause of oral cancers in the US, and the same one, which is responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancers in women. The quickest growing segment of the oral cancer population are young, healthy, non-smokers due to the connection to this virus.
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