ALCOHOL BLAMED FOR ORAL CANCER RISE

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I would like to share this information that published in Yahoo News online few days ago. I don't have an intention to give an extensive comments on this matter, however, using my conditional wisdom I reckon that the best solution to this oral cancer problem is to BAN ALCOHOL AND FREE SEX.

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By the way, I personally disagree when alcohol was blamed to be responsible of the high oral cancer rate in the UK recently. Alcohol is neutral. It has no brain to think whether it is good or bad for human at large or not. But it seems that human brain now has been contaminated by unknown and unidentified viruses that make them unable to solve a very small problem like this. I don't know what type of sickness is this?

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Source: Yahoo News (11 August 2009)

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Alcohol is chiefly to blame for an "alarming" rise in the rate of oral cancers among men and women in their forties, it has been claimed.

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Experts said the number of 40-somethings developing cancers of the mouth, tongue, lip and throat had increased by a quarter in the past decade.

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Smoking and alcohol consumption are the two main risk factors for oral cancers.

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But since cancers caused by smoking often take up to 30 years to develop, tobacco is not thought to be the main culprit. Instead, the finger of suspicion is pointing at alcohol consumption, which has doubled in the UK since the 1950s.

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Other risk factors that may be involved include a diet low in fruit and vegetables, and the sexuallytransmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), which also causes cervical cancer.

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Figures producerd by Cancer Research UK show that since the mid-1990s, rates of oral cancers have gone up by 28% for men in their forties and 24% for women.

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The charity's health information manager Hazel Nunn said: "These latest figures are really alarming. Around three quarters of oral cancers are thought to be caused by smoking and drinking alcohol. Tobacco is, by far, the main risk factor for oral cancer, so it's important that we keep encouraging people to give up and think about new ways to stop people taking it up in the first place.

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"But for people in their 40s, it seems that the other factors are also contributing to this jump in oral cancer rates. Alcohol consumption has doubles since the 1950s and the trend we are now seeing is likely to be linked to Britian's continually rising rinking levels.

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It is possible that HPV and diet are also playing a role, and the evidence- particularly for the role of HPV- is growing".

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Each year around 5,000 new oral cancers are diagnosed in the UK and 1,800 people die from the disease. Oral cancers include those of the lip, tongu, mouth, throat and a region called the piriform sinus.