Items Tagged ‘increase in oral cancer among younger patients’
March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Robotic Surgery Very Effective In Treating Oropharyngeal Cancer (Video)
Over the last decades physicians observed a significant increase in incidence of oral cancers among young patients. Although oral cancer was considered quite rare in young patients and mostly related to advanced age, smoking and alcohol abuse, its incidence is currently increasing among 30- to 50-year-old patients who never smoked but infected with the human papillomavirus or […]
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