What are the secrets to preventing and treating tongue cancer

Tongue cancer, the word cancer makes people tremble with fear. This disease is stubborn and difficult to treat, causing great pain to patients. The psychological harm caused by treatment is beyond words. In addition, the treatment will incur huge costs, which is unaffordable for ordinary people. Therefore, we should prevent it on a daily basis. Today, let’s take a look at the secrets of tongue cancer prevention and treatment:

The prevention of oral cancer lies in reducing external stimuli, actively treating precancerous lesions, and improving the body's resistance to disease. With the improvement of modern treatment technology, the treatment of oral cancer has achieved good results. After learning that they have oral cancer, many patients often think that it is an incurable disease and do not actively seek treatment, or have a fluke mentality and hope to treat it with some folk remedies, which delays the disease and loses the opportunity for treatment. Early detection and early treatment should be emphasized, and comprehensive treatment should be given priority. On the basis of surgical treatment, other treatment methods should be combined for comprehensive and systematic treatment, which is expected to achieve good treatment results. In addition, tongue cancer is the most easily metastatic oral cancer. It is generally advocated to perform selective (preventive) neck lymph node dissection at the same time as surgery (that is, lymph node dissection on the affected side is performed before clinical signs of lymph node metastasis are found). Clinical observation results show that the cure rate of patients who undergo selective neck dissection at the same time is higher than that of therapeutic neck dissection performed after neck lymph node metastasis is found. The initial signs of many diseases are also manifested on the tongue, but if the tongue is persistently red and swollen, it should not be ignored. Daily precautions for preventing tongue cancer are:

1. Strengthen cancer prevention surveys to achieve early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. If there is erosion, cracking, or ulceration on the tongue surface, it should be taken seriously and a cytology or biopsy should be performed if necessary.

2. Pay attention to oral hygiene, brush your teeth in the morning and evening, remove residual roots and crowns of teeth, and correct inappropriate dentures. Inappropriate dentures, caries, sharp ridges, etc., which cause long-term friction with the lingual edge, can cause ulcers; poor oral hygiene, chronic inflammatory stimulation, and mechanical damage can all become cancer-promoting factors.

3. Moderate smoking and drinking, and eat less irritating foods. Studies have shown that nicotine in tobacco is carcinogenic. Smokers are not only prone to tongue cancer, but also have a greatly increased chance of developing a second primary cancer if they continue to smoke after tongue cancer is cured. Alcohol itself has not been proven to be carcinogenic, but it has a carcinogenic effect. Alcohol can act as a solvent for carcinogens, prompting carcinogens to enter the tongue mucosa and cause cancer.

4. Treat tongue precancerous lesions, such as severe leukoplakia, promptly.

5. Papillomas, especially those that are plaque-like and have a wide base, should be removed surgically in a timely manner.

In addition to the above possible causes, heredity, body susceptibility, nutritional metabolic disorders, race and radiotherapy may be related to the occurrence of tongue cancer.

To prevent tongue cancer, you should give up bad habits, such as smoking and alcoholism, and develop good living habits. Improve oral hygiene and actively treat dental diseases. Brush your teeth every morning and evening, rinse your mouth after meals, and have an oral examination at least once a year. If you find dental and periodontal diseases, treat them in time; treat carious roots and crowns in time, restore the normal anatomical form of teeth at an early stage, and remove roots and crowns that are difficult to cure in time; grind sharp-edged teeth to make their edges smooth to prevent damage to the side edges of the tongue.

If a benign tongue tumor is found, it should be removed promptly. It is generally believed that leukoplakia and tongue mucosal atrophy are prone to tongue cancer. Eat a reasonable and balanced diet and minimize exposure to radiation. Improve nutrition and eat more foods rich in vitamins.