About Oral Cancer

~30,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year.

~It will cause more than 8,000 deaths, killing roughly one person per hour, 24 hours per day. Of those 30,000 newly diagnosed individuals, only half will be alive in five years.

~The death rate for oral cancer is higher than that of cervical cancer, Hodgkins disease, cancer of the brain, testes, kidney, or skin cancer (malignant melanoma.)

~The death rate associated with oral cancer is particularly high due to the cancer being routinely discovered late in its development. Often is is discovered when the cancer has metastasized to another location, most likely the lymph nodes of the neck.

~Oral cancer is particularly dangerous because it has a high risk of producing second, primary tumors.

Source: The Oral Cancer Foundation

For more information on oral cancer, visit The Oral Cancer Foundation at www.oralcancerfoundation.org.