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Young people have more oral cancers in them says Chennai Metropolitan Tumour Registry
Posted on: 31/May/2019 9:59:57 AM
One of the deadly forms of cancer is mouth cancer. This piece of news would send shock waves among the youngsters and would make them more worried now. It is brought out that the incidence of oral cancer has been on the rise and this is mostly seen in the teenage boys. This has been as per the statistics released by the Chennai Metropolitan Tumour Registry attached to Cancer Institute of Adyar.
In the year 2013, the incident of mouth cancer went up to 2.3 from the initial 0.6 per 100000 males in the age groups between 15 to 34. It is now revealed by the experts that the incidence of mouth cancer is expected to have reached 2.5 in males. The truth is in males between ages 35 to 64 the incidence of mouth cancer has increased from 12.4 to 18 in the same time period. In the women category, the incidence of mouth cancer went down.
It is important to note that although the annual rate of increase of mouth cancer declined in the women, the rate of incidence of tongue cancer increased. The statistics of the registry have shown that the annual rate of increase of tongue cancer in men was 2.5 percent and in the women was 1.4 percent.
As per Dr. Swaminathan, cancer institute professor and head of epidemiology, it is clear that few decades back the incidences of mouth cancer in the youngsters was zero and it has increased now to this extent and it is alarming. He then shed light on how the incidence of mouth cancer has seen 4 times rise in the last 3 decades and how the numbers are on the rise now. Tobacco intake has been cited as the major reason for the mouth cancer incidences in the younger generation now.
A survey was made by the department of psycho-oncology of cancer institute and it is now clear that 14 percent of petty shops near the schools sold tobacco. This has violated the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act. It was revealed by psycho-oncologist V. Surendran that banned products like gutka and pan masala were sold in the petty shops.
The lack of implementation of rules by the government as well as by the government agencies combined with the tobacco lobby has complicated the process. This was stated by none other than V. Shantha who is a senior oncologist at Cancer Institute in Chennai.
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