Very often mouth cancer does not produce symptoms in the early stage.
Cancerous early stage normal roof of mouth.
You may notice a growing lump or swelling in your upper lip the roof of your mouth inside your cheek or in another spot in your mouth.
The hard palate creates a barrier between the mouth and the nasal cavity.
Cancers that develop there tend to spread into the nasal cavity when they become more advanced.
In the early stage of mouth cancer it looks exactly like an ulcer.
But if they aren t treated there is a chance that these abnormal changes may become oral cancer.
The most common precancerous conditions of the mouth are leukoplakia and erythroplakia.
A mixture of red and white patches in your mouth called erythroleukoplakia is an abnormal cell growth that s more likely to become cancerous.
Most oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas.
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Stage i describes a very early stage of cancer.
The skin lining of the oral cavity gets thickened forming lumps and reddish patches are seen here and there of the mouth.
Sometimes oral cancers develop in the small salivary glands that exist in the lining of your mouth and throat.
Oral cancer can affect the mouth including the gums lips tongue mouth s roof and floor and the inner cheeks.
If red and white patches last more than two weeks.
Oral cancer affects the lips gums tongue roof of the mouth insides of the cheeks or the soft floor of the mouth under the tongue.
The tumor is not more than 2 centimeters and the cancer has not reached the lymph nodes.
If the sore bump on roof of mouth patch on tongue mass formed on gums swelling or color changes inside the mouth do not go away even after the passage of a few weeks then they should be evaluated by a doctor.
The accumulating abnormal mouth cancer cells can form a tumor.
Stage ii mouth cancer stage ii describes a tumor that is larger than 2 centimeters but not more than 4 centimeters.
Women and people of 45 years of age and above are more vulnerable to contracting mouth cancer.
These conditions are not yet cancer.
Mouth cancers most commonly begin in the flat thin cells squamous cells that line your lips and the inside of your mouth.
Some symptoms of mouth cancer are noticeable that makes it possible to detect mouth cancer in its early stages.
Some of the common signs of oral cancer are formation of sores lesions on the mouth that does not heal even after taking medications.
With time they may spread inside the mouth and on to other areas of the head and neck or other parts of the body.
It s called oropharyngeal when it affects your tonsils.
