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There are more mouth cancer cases in Gujarat. The reason behind this is tobacco and gutkha. The question is whether cancer can occur even after being given an addiction? News 18 Gujarati has a special conversation with experts in this regard. Learn the full information about what the experts have said in this regard.
Ahmedabad: Usually tobacco, gutkha, mawa, pan spice and BD, cigarette addiction is harmful to health and many ads to avoid it are made by the government. Nevertheless, the proportion of addictions is increasing and that is the reason why Gujarat is seeing capital for oral cancer all over the country. There have been approximately four to five thousand oral cancer in Gujarat. Experts advise abstaining from such addictions as well as leaving if there is addiction, and because of this, there is a question of addicts whether cancer can occur after addiction? Experts believe that two to three percent of the chance of cancer will be cancer after addiction. It also takes time to get rid of addiction and overcome the addiction to the years old.
World No Tobacco Day is being celebrated all over the world and efforts are being made to make people aware of it. According to the ICMR data, if we look at the cancer figure in Gujarat, the main two cancer cancer in the men in Gujarat is 21.5 percent, tongue cancer of tongue 11.5 percent. Whereas oral cancer in women is 5 percent and tongue cancer is 4.4 percent.
In Gujarat, people of 15 years of age or older consume tobacco in some way. In which women are 10.4 percent and men are 38.7 percent. Surgical oncologist at Apollo Cancer Center on Oral Cancer. V R N. Vijay Kumar said that if the last year’s data is wanted, there are four thousand to 5 thousand cases of oral cancer cases.
For those who eat tobacco, gutka and smoking than ordinary people, the chance of cancer increases 6 to 7 times. Change gradually increases in people who eat more tobacco longer. For example, if a person who has eaten tobacco, gutka for 10 years, has left the impact on it if he has just left. That is, people who have left tobacco are going to be 2 to 3 percent of the chance of cancer. That is why doctors say that people who have stopped eating tobacco are like a whirlwind, no pain and teeth are falling automatically so they should contact the dental surgeon and oral cancer surgeons for oral treatment.
It is worth mentioning that Dr. of the Hospital’s ENT and Head-Neck Surgery Department. Rajesh Vishwakarma said that the treatment of oral cancer is significantly possible if diagnosed initially. We advise everyone over the age of 30, especially those who consume tobacco.
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
