Oral Cancer Prevention
The College of Dentists of Las Palmas (COELP) warned today that the prevention of oral cancer could prevent 4,000 cases a year in Spain, according to its president, Hector Rodriguez, to take stock of the campaign “Go to the dentist”, aimed at promoting earlier diagnosis of possible precancerous lesions in the mouth, developed between October 26 and November 6.
About 50 in Las Palmas have been reviewed for free oral health of the citizens to detect precancerous and cancerous lesions.
The campaign warns that a dentist can save your life if it detects a potential oral cancer in its early stages. Rodriguez notes that the best diagnostic procedure is the clinical examination, and argues that a biopsy is the only safe method in packages and injury of more than fifteen days duration.
The rate of oral cancer mortality has declined only in Spain in the last 30 years, according to data provided by the General Dental Council. The delay in consulting a dentist is responsible for the poor prognosis of oral cancers diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease, causing about 4,000 cases hardly solvable.
At Least Once A Year
According to Hector J. Rodriguez, president of COELP, visiting a dentist at least once a year is the best way to detect this disease in its earliest stages. Otherwise, due to lack of symptoms, oral cancer patient undiagnosed and diagnosed when the disease is widespread.
Detect an injury. In general, any sore, lump or wound in the mouth that does not cure within fifteen days or less should be consulted with a dentist or maxillo-facial surgeon. The best way to detect lesions that do not have consciousness is systematically consulted a dentist who, in addition to reviewing the teeth, systematically explores the mucous membranes of his mouth, looking for potentially malignant lesions.
The best diagnostic procedure to rule out cancer continues to feel the professional inspection and palpation, because cancerous lesions usually appear as sores, lumps and abnormal hardness tongue, lips, floor of the mouth, cheeks, or other locations of the mouth, which often are inconspicuous at first.
Impact in Canarias
In the Canary Islands, according to a 2008 publication of the prestigious scientific journal Oral Oncology, the oral or mouth cancer has an incidence of 2.5 cases / 100,000 inhabitants / year, which puts them slightly behind other communities as the Basque Country, which has one of the highest incidence rate in Spain.
If you take into account the cancer of the lip, tongue and mouth, the rate would represent 2.81 percent of all malignant tumors diagnosed in the Canarian autonomous community annually. In a breakdown by gender, men would be 4 percent this type of cancerous tumors while the woman standing at 1.13 percent.
In particular, the Population Register Canary Cancer detected an average of 153 new cases in the capital’s two islands, of which 128 occur in men and 25 women. This implies a gross rate of 15.96 cases per 100,000 men and 3.16 cases per 100,000 women. In the Canaries the probability of developing one of these cancers before age 75 is 1 in every 66 men and 1 in 454 women. The average age of onset is 61 years for men and 67 women.
Of all malignant tumors of the lip, tongue and mouth in males the most common location is the mouth, which represents 38 percent of the total, followed by the lip, with 34 percent and finally the tongue with a 27, 73 percent. Among women the most frequent oral cancer by 45 percent, followed by the tongue, with 31 per cent and finally, with 23.5 percent.
Among the recommendations made to correct this trend and preventing new cases of oral cancer, doctors Dionisio Romero Cortes and the COELP Coralia, advised to follow some simple steps like eating four or five units of fruit and vegetables a day, and that this demonstrated that this measure could prevent up to 40 percent the risk of developing certain types of oropharyngeal cancer.
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