{"id":298,"date":"2013-05-01T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:40:53","slug":"young-adults-have-higher-risk-of-oral-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/young-adults-have-higher-risk-of-oral-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Adults Have Higher Risk of Oral Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once considered an old man’s disease, oral cancer<\/a> is making a comeback; only this time it’s targeting young adults. Oral cancer is now the sixth most common cancer among young adults in their 20s and 30s.\u00a0More than 40,000 Americans are diagnosed with oral cancer every year, according to the Oral Cancer Foundation<\/a>. Oral cancer kills\u00a0 one person every hour. More than 8,000 Americans will die from oral cancer this year alone. Even more frightening, only 57% of people diagnosed with oral cancer live past 5 years.<\/p>\n

Oral cancer has a higher death rate than most cancers because it is difficult to detect, often fails to produce noticeable symptoms\u00a0and is, therefore,\u00a0usually not discovered until it has metastasized to a secondary location, typically the lymph nodes. The lag time between infection and discovery allows oral cancer to invade other local structures, resulting in additional forms of cancer. The risk of producing primary tumors at a second site is 20 times higher for oral cancer patients.<\/p>\n

Oral cancer causes\u00a0squamous cell carcinomas in 90% of cases. There are several reasons oral cancer has begun to attack people under 40.<\/p>\n