Dr Omolara Uti, an Associate Professor of Community Dentistry at
the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), on Wednesday said that tobacco use and consistent
heavy consumption of alcohol could cause oral cancer.
She said that oral cancer, which was otherwise known as mouth
cancer, was one of the diseases handled by dentists and had mortality, compared
to other mouth-related diseases.
Oral cancer is problematic in the mouth because many people do
not detect it in time, such that by the time the patient presents it, it is
usually too late.
Tobacco use in any form, either by smoking, chewing, sniffing or
deeping it in the month, may cause oral cancer; also heavy consumption of
alcohol has been known as a cause of oral cancer.
When the two substances are now combined together, it becomes
very dangerous because one will help to potentiate the effort of the other.
They have a synergistic relationship that can make it cause oral
cancer, and we also have the effect of sunlight, especially in Caucasians, Uti
said.
The professor said that deficiencies of iron, fruits and
vegetables rich in Vitamins A, C, and E, could also lead to the causes of oral
cancer.
Other causes might be genetic disposition and also the Human
Paploma Virus, which is found in female genital warts, now found in the mouth
due to oral sex, can also cause mouth cancer,’’ she said.
According to her, oral cancer presents itself like a harmless
ulcer in the mouth that is non healing, after two weeks, a painless lump, then
the teeth becomes suddenly mobile.
It can also present like a white plague in the mouth, which is
known as leukoplakia, so if anyone is experiencing any of these symptoms, there
is a need to see a dentist.
These are signs that it could be cancer of the mouth and there
are different modalities for treatment, which could be either chemotherapy
drugs or radiation and also surgery.
The survival rate for oral cancer is 50 per cent, but when early
treatment is instituted, survival rate can improve to as high as 80 per cent,
she said.
Uti, however, advocated for early presentation of any kind of
usual ulcer or changes in the mouth, to enhance early diagnosis and treatment
of oral cancer in Nigeria.
(NAN)
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