Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Blog # 9: Increasing the risk of oral cancer

Summary:
                The latest research on oral cancer has lead researchers to discover that bad dental hygiene and extreme use of mouth washes with alcohol in them can lead to increased risks of oral/mouth cancer. Around the world there are approximately 640,000 people who contract oral cancer which can occur in the following places: the tongue, the floor of the mouth the gum, and the cheek. The deaths caused by oral cancer were counted to be around 7,890 in past years.  These findings were discovered by the Leibniz Institute for Prevention and Epidemiology.

Analysis:

                Researchers want to know if these finding mean anything important. And what they found was that although poor mouth cleaning and mouth washes with alcohol cannot alone cause oral cancer, they can increase the risk of mouth cancer when an individual is already smoking or already consuming large amounts of alcohol. Smoking and alcohol are the most common causes of mouth cancer and having a consistently dirty mouth or swishing mouth wash that contains alcohol can hurt one’s chances of fighting oral cancer if they already smoke or drink a lot of alcohol. Mouth cancer is a non-communicable disease that can be prevented. Researchers hope to use this information to teach people that they need to every precaution to avoid oral cancer. A cleaner mouth and mouth washes without alcohol as well as not smoking and heavily drinking alcohol are all major ways that people can greatly reduce their chances of getting oral cancer. 

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