NIH. US: Oral cancer accounts for roughly two percent of all cancers
diagnosed annually in the United States. Approximately 42,000 people
will be diagnosed with oral cancer each year and about 8,000 will die
from the disease.
On average, 60 percent of those with the disease will survive more than 5 years.
Oral cancer most often occurs in people over the age of 40 and affects more than twice as many men as women.
Oral cancer most often occurs in people over the age of 40 and affects more than twice as many men as women.
Oral cancer includes cancers of the mouth and the pharynx (the back of the throat).