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Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 64 | When I was 13 I smoked like a pack of cigarettes within like 3 months I never smoked more than mabe 20 cigarettes im now 16 dont smoke or drink can those 20 cigarettes I smoked give me cancer?
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Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,293 Likes: 1 | I really doubt 20 cigarettes can cause cancer. Even then with oral cancer it is both drinking and smoking together that can trigger it.
Don Male, 57 - Great health except C Dec '12 DX: BOT SCC T2N2bMx, Stage 4a, HPV+, multiple nodes 1 tooth out Jan '13 2nd tooth out Tumor Board -induction TPF (3 cycles), seq CRT 4-6/2013 CRT 70gr 2x35, weekly carbo150 ended 5/29,6/4 All the details, join at http://beatdown.cognacom.com | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 | Tobacco and alcohol origin cancers take years of exposure to cause the problem when you look at long term demographics. The average oral cancer from tobacco, is in a person in their late 5th through 7th decade of life, who have been tobacco users, of many "pack days" for a protracted period of time. While there are no absolutes, and while documentation of young people getting cancers who also smoke is there, it is not a large number. But it is certainly not zero either.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 56 | Please, please don't smoke.
My cancer was caused by smoking, and it has ruined my life. I am only 43.
I haven't had a cigarette for TEN YEARS.
I thought I had got away with it.
I hadn't.
Please do not ever touch another cigarette again.
I only wish I could go back in time and tell myself this when I was 16.
Mar 99 white patch tongue
Dec 11 white patch changed shape. biopsy neg
Sep 13 white patch ulcerated. Biopsy
Nov 13 diag Tongue SCC T2N2BM0 poorly Differ.
Dec 13 Hemigloss. neck dissect.Trach.Caldwell Luc (suspect cysts inside face, neg), teeth out. forearm flap, abdo graft
Feb 14 PEG tube
Feb/Mar 14. 30 x radio 60gy Grade 3 Mucositis, burns, hair loss, very ill. Nerve damage ear neck shoulder
Jun 14 *now* PEG out. Have lost 98 lbs in 1 yr. Anorexia. Dysphagia, liquids only. Dysphasia. Fatigue.
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