[quote]Posted By Tami - "Genetic predisposition to
base of tongue cancer?"[/quote]Tami, there is a genetic predisposition to any cancer, just as there is a genetic predisposition to coronary artery disease, or high blood pressure...or even hair loss.

Genetics plays a role in all aspects of your life...that is inescapable.

As I have said before, that is the reason that some people can smoke cigarettes for 50 years and never get cancer and someone else can smoke for less than 20 years and get lung or oral cancer.
Or, for that matter, never smoke at all and get cancer.

Same reason why one person can eat sausage and eggs every morning, use real butter and cook with fatback and live to be 90 and another person can eat an average diet and get his coronary arteries plugged up by age 40...genetics.

I had occasion to recently speak with a woman who "dips" snuff. She has a pinch between her cheek and gum more often than not.
In fact, she even told me that she has to put a pinch of snuff between her cheek and gum each night before she goes to bed...and sleeps with it in her mouth all night. She said she can't get to sleep unless she does that.

She is a very chipper and interesting lady. She is also 92 years old and told me she has "dipped" snuff since she was a teenager.

I tell you about her, not to condone smokeless tobacco...but to illustrate how important genetics is to cancer susceptibility.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/genetics/overview/healthprofessional

Regards,
-Ward