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Oral Cancer Learning Center
Causes could include:
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Mutation
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Oral cancer most commonly involves the tissue of the lips or the tongue. It may also occur on the floor of the mouth, cheek lining, gums (gingiva), or roof of the mouth (palate).
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The major risk factors for oral and oropharyngeal cancers are smoking and alcohol consumption . These two factors account for 75% of all the oral cavity cancers reported in the United States. Smokeless tobacco (chew or spit tobacco) is yet another...
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Nearly three-quarters of all oral cancers are related to tobacco use—either cigarette, pipe, or cigar smoking, or the use of smokeless tobacco products such as snuff. Tobacco-specific nitrosamines are the carcinogens (cancer-causing substances) im...
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In a strict sense, mutations are changes in genes not caused by genetic recombination. A change in the base sequence of DNA , for example, represents a mutational change. Spontaneous mutations are mutations that occur at a given frequency without ...
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