Oral Cancer (cont.)
National Cancer Institute information resources
You may want more information for yourself, your family, and your doctor. The
following National Cancer Institute (NCI) services are available to help you.
Telephone
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Toll-free: 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237)
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Internet
http://cancer.gov
The NCI's Cancer.gov™ Web site provides information from
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screening, diagnosis, treatment, genetics, supportive care, and ongoing clinical
trials. It also provides information about NCI's research programs and funding
opportunities, cancer statistics, and the Institute itself. Cancer.gov provides
live, online assistance through LiveHelp. Cancer.gov is at http://cancer.gov on
the Internet.
http://www.smokefree.gov
The Tobacco Control Research Branch of NCI, in
collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the
American Cancer Society, created a smoking cessation Web site. It offers online
quitting advice through NCI's LiveHelp service. It also provides national and
state telephone quitline numbers and access to printed materials about quitting
tobacco. It is located on the Internet at http://www.smokefree.gov.
Print materials
You can order National Cancer Institute (NCI) publications by writing to the
address below:
Publications Ordering Service
National Cancer Institute
Suite 3036A
6116
Executive Boulevard, MSC 8322
Bethesda, MD 20892-8322
Some NCI publications can be viewed, downloaded, and ordered from http://cancer.gov/publications
on the Internet. If you are in the United States or one of its territories, you
may order these and other NCI booklets by calling the Cancer Information Service
at 1-800-4-CANCER.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research information
resources
The National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse
This Clearinghouse is a service of the Federal Government's National
Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). NIDCR's mission is to
promote the general health of the American people by improving their oral,
dental, and craniofacial health. Through the conduct and support of research and
the training of researchers, the NIDCR aims to promote health, prevent diseases
and conditions, and develop new diagnostics and therapies.
NIDCR directs the health awareness campaign, Oral
Health, Cancer Care, and You: Fitting the Pieces Together. The campaign
addresses the importance of preventing and managing the oral side effects of
cancer treatments. It is a partnership among NIDCR, NCI, National Institute of
Nursing Research, and
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
NIDCR can supply free information about oral cancer and taking care of your
mouth during cancer treatment. Booklets are available in English and Spanish:
Chemotherapy and Your Mouth
Head and Neck Radiation Treatment and Your Mouth
Quimioterapia y la Boca (Chemotherapy and Your Mouth)
Su Boca y el Tratamiento
de Radiación en la Cabeza y el Cuello (Head and Neck Radiation and Your Mouth)
Materials may be obtained by contacting the Clearinghouse:
National Institute
of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Oral Health Information
Clearinghouse
Attn: OCCT
1 NOHIC Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3500
Tel: 301-402-7364
Materials are also available online at http://www.nidcr.nih.gov under "health
information."
- Oral cancer is caused by tobacco (smoking and chewing)
and alcohol use.
- A sore in the mouth that does not heal can be a
warning sign of oral cancer.
- A biopsy is the only to know whether as abnormal area
in the oral cavity is cancer.
- Treatment of oral cancer depends on the location,
size, type, and extent of the tumor, as well as the age and health of the
patient.
- Surgery to remove the tumor in the mouth is the usual treatment for
patients with oral cancer.
SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, www.cancer.gov
Last Editorial Review: 12/10/2009
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