What Is Mouth Cancer?
5. Is Mouth Cancer Treatable?
Oral cancer is a treatable condition, and, like most other cancers, is more easily cured the sooner it is discovered. Cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, especially the nerves, blood vessels, or lymph nodes, are at higher risk of causing death or spreading faster throughout the body.
In general, mouth cancer has a 65% 5-year survival rate. However, early detection brings this rate up to 84%, while late detection can bring this rate down to 39%. Currently, about 29% of cases are caught early on. There are about 10,000 deaths in a given year from oral cancer.
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