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#49302 10-05-2002 09:37 AM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 1 Member | | Member
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 1 | I am doing a paper for school on preventing oral cancer and am having a hard time finding information. Does anyone have any ideas where to look???????? Thanks in advance for any help. | | |
#49303 10-05-2002 04:15 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 71 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 71 | In essece there is no prevention for oral cancer that is differnet from "preventing" any other cancer. Oral cancer is heavily related to life style choices like smoking, so the only prevention is to choose to not use tobacco or drink heavily, another risk factor. For those of us that did neither and still got it, it's the luck of the draw and there is no prevention, any more than there is preventing leukemia. I am surprised that with over 150 pages of information on the OCF site that you are on, you can't find enough here to do a paper......... Search under Google.com for oral cancer, and you will find about 300 possible sites. It ain't no harder than that. But you will not find anything regarding prevention. Your paper should be on early detection. Now there is a place where something can be done that will save lives. But you cannot prevent cancer.
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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