Why can you get tongue cancer?

summary

Tongue cancer is a common malignant tumor. It is common in oral and maxillofacial regions. The incidence rate of male tongue cancer is higher than that of women. Most of the tumors occurred at the edge of the tongue, in addition to the tip, back and abdomen of the tongue. The early symptoms are mainly ulcer type or infiltration type, with obvious pain and strong infiltration, leading to limited tongue movement, eating and swallowing difficulties, etc., which pose a great threat to the life of patients and need to be treated as soon as possible. Let's take a look at the following.

Why can you get tongue cancer?

First, the specific etiology of tongue cancer is still unclear. It is generally believed that it is related to many factors and cannot be generalized. For example, environmental factors such as chronic injury, ultraviolet and X-ray are related to the appearance of symptoms. In addition, other radioactive substances can become carcinogenic factors.

Second: the factors of tongue cancer are diverse, early detection and timely treatment is very important, treatment is mainly surgery based comprehensive treatment, including primary disease resection and neck lymph node dissection, at the same time, before and after surgery to cooperate with chemotherapy or radiotherapy can achieve better therapeutic effect.

Third: in addition, residual root, sharp tooth tip and bad prosthesis and other parts that are often stimulated are prone to tongue cancer or buccal mucosa cancer. In addition, neuropsychiatric factors, endocrine factors and immune status of the body are all related to the occurrence of tongue cancer.

matters needing attention

There are many factors leading to tongue cancer, early detection and timely treatment is very important, in addition, we need to do a good job in prevention, usually pay attention to reduce external stimuli, improve the body's resistance to disease and so on.