Mouth Cancer

The choice that I have chosen to write about for this report is mouth cancer. I am personally interested in this type of cancer because of the fact that I play baseball. If you have ever seen a baseball game on television you would have somewhat of an idea that major leaguers chew tobacco quit often so I was interested in the risks that they put them selves into. I also wanted to know the …

…decreased (Porter, 2000). Almost 50% of people with oral cancer will live 5 years or longer. If detected early enough before the cancer has spread to other tissues, the cure rate is nearly 75%. Unfortunately, over 50% of oral cancers are advanced at the time the cancer is detected. Most have spread to the throat or neck. Approximately 25% of people die from oral cancer it is either not diagnosed early enough or because the treatment was tried too late (Website ???).