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• ↓ Oral Cancer Answers Podcast
• ↓ Check Your Mouth™ Campaign
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"The Oral Cancer Foundation is a national public service, IRS-registered 501(c) (3) head and neck cancer charity designed to reduce suffering and save lives through prevention, education, research funding, advocacy, and patient support. Oral and oropharyngeal cancers are the largest group of those cancers that fall into the head and neck cancer category. Common names for it include such things as mouth cancer, tongue cancer, tonsil cancer, and throat cancer. Approximately 59,600 people in the US will be newly diagnosed with oral cancer this year. This includes cancers that occur in the mouth itself (salivary gland cancers, tongue cancers, mucosal soft tissue cancers), in the very back of the mouth known as the oropharynx (primarily the tonsils, tonsillar crypts, and the base of tongue), and on the exterior lips of the mouth. For more than a decade, there has been an annual increase in the rate of occurrence of oral and oropharyngeal cancers. This is expected to continue as no national screening policy or protocol exists, and the disease’s risk factors remain relatively unchanged."

"There are two distinct pathways by which most people come to oral and oropharyngeal 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 HPV-16 virus (human papillomavirus version 16), a relatively newly (since 1999) identified etiology, and the same one is responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancers in women. A small percentage of people (under about 10%) do get oral cancers from no currently identified cause. It is believed that these are likely related to genetic predisposition, frailty, or an unidentified shared risk factor."

"While some think this is a rare cancer, mouth cancers will be newly diagnosed in about 145 new individuals each day in the US alone, and a person dies from oral cancer every hour of every day. If you add the head and neck subcategory of laryngeal throat cancers, the rates of occurrence (about 12,000 additional new cases per year) and death are significantly higher. When found at early stages of development, oral cancers can have an 80 to 90 % survival rate. Unfortunately, at this time, the majority are found as late-stage cancers, and this accounts for the very high death rate of about 43% at five years from diagnosis (for all stages and etiologies combined at time of diagnosis), and high treatment-related morbidity in survivors. Late-stage diagnosis is not occurring because most of these cancers are hard to discover (though some, like HPV origin disease, have unique discovery issues); it is because of a lack of public awareness, coupled with the lack of a national program for opportunistic screenings, which would yield early discovery by medical and dental professionals. This data is for the US only. Countries will have different incidence and death rates, as well as different dominant etiologies. The worldwide burden of oral cancers is an estimated 657,000 new cases of cancers of the oral cavity and oropharynx each year, and more than 330,000 deaths. (World Health Organization data). This data is likely conservative, as actual reporting across all countries, particularly in the developing world, is often problematic, and many cases go unreported."

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HOPE

Close to 59,600 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer this year.

“Be part of the change™”

Oral Cancer Answers Podcast

Check Your Mouth™ Campaign

Rodeo – Tobacco Outreach