Real risk of oral cancer from cigars?

Realistically, the real risk of really getting real cancer is really significantly higher than if you didn't smoke.

There isn't a formula that says if you smoke x grams of tobacco y times per year for z years, your probably of developing cancer is P. Using tobacco products in any form on a regular basis appreciably increases the risk of you developing some form cancer. Cigarette smokers get lung cancer; pipe and cigar smokers get mouth and throat cancer; smokeless users get mouth cancer. But people who have never smoked a day in their life can still get caner. Sh*t happens.

What's the point in risking cancer if you aren't even smoking for the nicotine? I'm glad your questioning it, because it's time to stop! Oral cancer isn't your only risk. Your still processing smoke through your body. It's still being absorbed through breathing second hand smoke which is just as dangerous

Close to 48,250 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year. It will cause over 9,575 deaths, killing roughly 1 person per hour, 24 hours per day. Of those 48,250 newly diagnosed individuals, only slightly more than half will be alive in 5 years. (Approximately 57%) This is a number which has not significantly improved in decades. (The survival number at 5 years from diagnosis was for many decades about 50%, so 57% is an improvement over the last ten years. However this is due to the increase of HPV16 caused cancers which are more vulnerable to existing treatment modalities, conferring a significant survival advantage. So a change in the etiology, not improved early discovery or treatments; which are relatively unchanged from a decade ago, are not the sole cause for improvement.) The death rate for oral cancer is higher than that of cancers which we hear about routinely such as cervical cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, laryngeal cancer, cancer of the testes, and endocrine system cancers such as thyroid. If you expand the definition of oral and oropharyngeal cancers to include cancer of the larynx, the numbers of diagnosed cases grow to approximately 54,000 individuals, and 13,500 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Worldwide the problem is much greater, with over 450,000 new cases being found each year. Note that the world incidence numbers from the WHO, while the best available, are estimates that users should consider with caveats. Data collection and reporting in some countries is problematic in spite of the professional efforts of the WHO to be accurate.

Statistics on worldwide occurrence

Oral cancers are part of a group of cancers commonly referred to as head and neck cancers, and of all head and neck cancers they comprise about 85% of that category. Brain cancer is a cancer category unto itself, and is not included in the head and neck cancer group.

Historically the death rate associated with this cancer is particularly high not because it is hard to discover or diagnose, but due to the cancer being routinely discovered late in its development. Today, (2016) that statement is still true, as there is not a comprehensive program in the US to opportunistically screen for the disease, and without that; late stage discovery is more common.

- See more at: http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/facts/#sthash....

your mouth wash and toothpaste isn't going to stop the growth of cancer cells. all that does is freshen your breath. it doesn't matter how long you hold it in, you are still getting tobacco in your mouth. not inhaling saves your lungs, not your mouth.

Realistically, much, much higher than if you didn't smoke at all.

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