fortnight of action against oral cancer.
From October 26 to November 06.
-Every five hours killed a person in Spain by oral cancer.
-Problem: 70% of cases, oral cancer is detected in the late stages, and by then it may be too late. (*)
Spain, October 2009.- From 16 to 22 November is celebrated the fortnight of action against the Oral cancer convened by the General Council of dentists and stomatologists of Spain Y ClÃnica Aparicio of amount to it. The purpose of this is the inform and educate Spanish society on the impact of this pathology.
The fortnight of action against Oral cancer provides various actions with the aim of sensitizing the population about the high incidence of oral cancer and the importance of early diagnosis.
The oral is one of the few cancers whose mortality rate has not declined significantly in the past 30 years. In fact, the incidence of oral cancer triples at the moment to cervical cancer.
Early detection of precancerous and cancerous lesions with high risk of malignizar is essential to improve the prognosis of this disease. However, it is frequent that oral lesions no symptoms, are painless and, in terms of physical changes, are little obvious. If it discovers in time, the survival rate of oral cancer is very high. Why it is so important to get early detection tests once a year, or every six months if you are smoker.
Oral cancer has been traditionally associated with tobacco use, and is true that most of the victims of oral cancer are smokers, consume alcohol and have more than 40 years.
However, the population group that is experiencing the highest rate of growth in the incidence of oral cancer does not conform to this profile risk ” traditional. Oral cancer affects more and more to younger people who consume tobacco or alcohol. In many cases, the cause is one of the two strains of human papillomavirus (HPV-16 or HPV-18), which can be contracted through sexual intercourse, especially in the practice of oral sex.
Do not hesitate to ask your dentist if you have any questions about oral cancer. In the same way that the dentist diagnosed caries or periodontal disease, can rule out cancerous or potentially cancerous lesions.
The review for the early detection of oral cancer is carried out in a few minutes, the use of modern techniques that value the cellular and molecular activity through provocation and registration of the autofluorescencia of tissues exponentially multiplied the effectiveness of the review.
(*) Fortnight of action against Oral cancer ( www.consejodentistas.es ) and Department of prevention and Periodontics clinic Aparicio ( www.clinicaaparicio.com ).
