How can the elderly prevent tongue cancer

Tongue cancer makes patients feel pain when eating, difficulty swallowing water, difficulty speaking, constant body pain, sleeplessness, and mental torture. As the elderly have weak physical mechanisms and are even weaker after the disease, they cannot live peacefully in their later years. So today, let's take a look at how the elderly can prevent tongue cancer.

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 caries and residual roots and crowns in time, restore the normal anatomical morphology of teeth at an early stage, and remove residual 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 benign tongue tumors are found, they should be removed in time. It is generally believed that leukoplakia and atrophy of the tongue mucosa are prone to tongue cancer. Eat a reasonable and balanced diet and minimize exposure to radiation. Improve nutrition and consume more foods rich in vitamins.