For the last 10 to 20 years, oropharyngeal, or throat cancers , are increasing in incidence in individuals who are young, healthy and non-smokers….CONTINUE READING...CONTINUE READING
Smoking has been linked to many types of cancer, including cancer of the lung, mouth, throat, voice box, pancreas, bladder, cervix and kidney. Even being around secondhand smoke might increase the risk of lung cancer.
But it’s not only smoking that’s harmful. Chewing tobacco
has been linked to cancer of the mouth, throat and pancreas.
Staying away from tobacco — or deciding to stop using it — is an important way to help prevent cancer. For help quitting tobacco, ask a health care provider about stop-smoking products and other ways of quitting.
Doing regular self-exams and having screenings for cancers — such as cancer of the skin, colon, cervix and breast — can raise the chances of finding cancer early. That’s when treatment is most likely to succeed. Ask a health care provider about the best cancer screening schedule for you.
Diet is thought to be responsible for one-third of all avoidable malignancies, which is about the same as smoking. The epidemiological findings showing persons who consume only little portions of fruits and vegetables
have a higher risk of developing throat cancer could be explained by an insufficient intake of important vitamins and tobacco.
Drinking alcohol increases the chances of malignancies of the throat, liver, colon, and other organs. The smaller your risk, the less you drink. If you do drink, limit yourself to no more than one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for males.
Limit processed meats. Eating processed meat often can slightly increase the risk of certain types of cancer. This news comes from a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization….CONTINUE READING
