Betel Nut Mouth Cancer
Habitual chewers of betel leaf and areca nut have a greatly increased risk of developing a range of serious diseases including cancers of the mouth and esophagus.
Betel nut mouth cancer. Research has revealed some serious health risks of betel nut. The who classifies betel nut as a carcinogen. Many studies have shown a convincing link between betel nut use and cancer of the mouth. Image caption the taiwanese government is offering subsidies in return for cutting down betel nut palms luckily for qiu zhen huang his cancer was treated and his cheek reconstructed.
Betel nut and oral cancer betel quid chewing is a strong independent risk factor for pharyngeal cancer cancer of the back of the throat but not laryngeal cancer cancer of the voice box according to findings published in the international journal of cancer. Chewing betel quid which consists of betel leaf from the piper betle vine is popular in many parts of asia. Betel quid is chewed. Mouth cancer has a ten year incubation period so they fear a huge bout of oral cancer will hit india in a few years time.
Betel quid paan and oral cancer british asians have brought the use of areca from india some via east africa pakistan bangladesh and other countries in the region and its use is thus firmly culturally bound. Betel nut which is rich in. To produce oral cancer. 343536a approximately 30 of oral cancers in southeast asia are caused by betel nut use.
A common drug used by naturalized. Cheek gums lips tongue and. Floor and roof of the mouth. Both betel nuts and chewing tobacco are held in the mouth inside the cheek or between the cheek and gum.
Hence the more common name betel nut. Areca nut is used by an estimated 200 400 million people mainly indoasians and chinese. 1 it is used by men and womenin some societies the latter predominate.